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Friday, May 28th, 2010Young Readers are invited to Make a Splash into Summer Reading 2010 with author Kate Klise at the RI State House on June 12 from 12 Noon – 3 PM. Kate Klise will speak at 1 PM. Each family to receive a free book. A book sale and signing will follow. Festivities include music from Joe’s […]
RFB&D and NLS Digital Player
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010For those folks needing this information, here are basic steps borrowed from another Regional Library used to authorize an NLS player to play RFB&D books. The RFB&D account holder needs to login to his/her account, choose to “Authorize a DAISY player”. Choose the appropriate NLS model (advanced or standard player) from the dropdown list of […]
Reading Across RI Related Books
Monday, April 19th, 2010The following Talking Books Plus fictional books are set in Guernsey Island. They come from the Reading Across RI Resource List for the book, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. The Book of Ebenezer le Page by G.B.Edwards RC17425 A Place of Hiding by Elizabeth George RC56504, BR […]
Pratt-Smoot Act
Monday, March 15th, 2010This blog article is a belated Happy Birthday that the regional library network for the Blind celebrated on March 3rd. Seventy nine years ago, the Pratt-Smoot Act became law and national library service was established on March 3, 1931. The Librarian of Congress was authorized to arrange with other libraries “to serve as local or regional centers […]
Mystic Seaport Pass
Monday, March 15th, 2010Free passes for Talking Books Plus members and their families to visit Mystic Seaport: The Museum of America and the Sea in Mystic, Connecticut, are available on request from NLS. Mystic Seaport hosts a variety of events throughout the year. NLS has one pass for each day of the week, Sunday through Saturday. Each pass […]
Tax Documents in Alternative Format
Friday, March 5th, 2010NLS has been informed by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Alternative Media Center that it will not provide IRS tax documents in braille for automatic distribution to libraries. A current list of accessible tax products is available by download. Individuals may also order hard-copy braille and large print documents by calling the IRS toll-free number […]
Downloading Tip
Friday, February 5th, 2010This blog is being used to share what one librarian calls “workarounds” for patrons who are downloading BARD titles to their digital machine. One patron claims to load her downloaded BARD (Braille and Audio Reading Download) books to a MP3 player and then plays the books on the NLS digital book machine by connecting it to […]
Flash Drive for Downloading
Thursday, December 24th, 2009A growing number of Talking Books Plus members have their digital players. Many of these same members have joined the Braille and Audio Reading Download (BARD) service. With more than 15,000 audio books available for download at the BARD site, members want to know what flash drives work with the digital player. The BARD service is free. Members only need […]
Premiere Edition of The Download
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009Reading for the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D) announces the premiere of The Download, a national e-newsletter that helps keep readers up to date with the latest news and local events. According to John Kelly, CEO & President, “The Download” e-newsletter will keep readers connected to news of national importance to RFB&D. In the Spotlight section of […]
Teen Read Week
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009Teen Read Week 2009 will be celebrated Oct. 18-24 in thousands of public and school libraries, classrooms, and bookstores across the country! This year’s theme is Read Beyond Reality @ your library, which encourages teens to read something out of this world, just for the fun of it. This is a national literacy initiative of the […]
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