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Digital Books Catalogs
By Alicia Waters | May 7, 2010
Digital books available through the Talking Books Plus library are listed in the bi-monthly Talking Book Topics book catalog. The November-December 2009 issue is the first issue to add digital books in the catalog. Order digital books by DB number. This 2009 issue announced the availability of cartridges and the changes to the Talking Book Topics catalog format. Visit Talking Book Topics for the online version of Talking Book Topics catalogs that cover November 2009 to April 2010 digital titles.
Members of Talking Books Plus elect to get the catalog in either large print or cassette format. Every year, the 6 bi-monthly book catalogs are compiled into a yearly Cassette Books catalog. The latest issue available is Cassette Books 2008. This annual catalog lists the entire list of books that were added in that year. Titles are alphabetically listed within subject categories under nonfiction and fiction headings in the annual catalog. The Talking Book Topics issues, January through December, for that year can be discarded as the Cassette Books catalog contains the same titles. The 2009 issue which is not in print yet should be the first yearly catalog to include digital titles. Both Talking Book Topics and Cassette Books catalogs provide annotations of the titles and book order information.
To search the entire digital collection now, visit the online Catalog. Under Search Options, Use Patron Profile, to search by the Media, Digital Book. The user ID and password which is requried to search by Patron Profile is available by calling Talking Books Plus staff at 574-9310 Monday through Friday 8 am to 4 pm.
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