August 2011 Bestseller List
By Alicia Waters | September 7, 2011
The August 2011 Bestseller List compiled monthly by NLS combines information taken from the bestseller lists of the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. Bestsellers are included in the list when they appear on one of the above bestseller lists for a month or more. Once a title appears in the list with an NLS number, it will not appear on future reports.
The acronyms used for newspapers and book clubs in the NLS bestseller report are:
Code Source
LAT Los Angeles Times
NYT New York Times
WP Washington Post
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Learning Ally membership discount extended
By Alicia Waters | September 6, 2011
Update on Learning Ally (formerly RFB&D) membership.
Join or renew your membership with Learning Ally on or before September 18 and pay only $79.
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InfoEyes Librarians Can Help
By Alicia Waters | August 19, 2011
InfoEyes is a cooperative project in which talking book librarians from eight states, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Maine, Massachusetts Tennessee, Washington and the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, work together to respond to patrons’ questions over the Internet. InfoEyes assists a diverse population, including students, teachers, parents who are helping children with homework, and curious general readers.
Any patron with a computer and an Internet connection can visit the Info-Eyes web site at www.infoeyes.org . Upon accessing the site, visitors may ask a question by e-mail or set up a time to chat live with a reference librarian. To e-mail a question, select that link on the web page, enter your e-mail address, question, and your state and click the submit question button. An InfoEyes librarian will respond to your question.
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Humorous Mysteries
By Alicia Waters | August 18, 2011
Take a look at the titles in this humorous mysteries booklist.
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Cozy Mysteries
By Alicia Waters | August 18, 2011
If you want to read cozy mysteries, try the authors in this list.
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July 2011 Bestseller List
By Alicia Waters | August 12, 2011
The July 2011 Bestseller List has been posted. This bestseller list compiled monthly by NLS combines information taken from the bestseller lists of the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. Bestsellers are included when they appear on one of the above bestseller lists for a month or more. Once a title appears in the list with an NLS number, it will not appear on future lists.
The acronyms used for newspapers and book clubs in the NLS bestseller list are:
Code Source
LAT Los Angeles Times
NYT New York Times
WP Washington Post
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Foreign language materials on BARD
By Alicia Waters | July 18, 2011
Beginning Friday, July 15, 2011, a new page on the Braille and Audio Reading Download (BARD) website will feature specially acquired foreign-language materials. Readers may access this page through a link on the main BARD page labeled Digital Foreign-Language Collection.
The first work available on the page is the five-volume historical survey Los Ciegos en la Historia (The Blind in History) by Jesús Montoro Martínez, published and made available to NLS by the National Organization of Spanish Blind People—better known by its acronym, ONCE. Spanning more than two hundred hours of reading time, this Spanish-language work explores the lives of blind individuals and the social perceptions of blindness and visual impairment in cultures across the globe, including those of Egypt, China, Japan, Europe, Africa, and the Americas, from prehistory through the 1990s. Truly international and multicultural in scope, Los Ciegos en la Historia is an appropriate premier work for the BARD digital foreign-language page.
In the coming months, other downloadable foreign-language books will be made available via this link, including Russian, German, French, and Lithuanian titles.
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RC Titles Incorrectly Included in TBT
By Alicia Waters | July 18, 2011
Because of a database error, many titles listed as DB/RC pairs in issues of Talking Book Topics from September-October 2010 through July-August 2011 are available only as DBs. All titles were listed correctly in the March-April 2011 Talking Book Topics.
There is a complete list of titles that previously were announced as RCs but will not be produced on cassette.
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Learning Ally changes membership
By Alicia Waters | July 8, 2011
Effective August 31, all current individual memberships will expire at Learning Ally (formerly RFB&D). September 1, a Learning Ally individual membership will be $99 per year. Prior to August 31, Learning Ally is offering the opportunity to register or renew a one year individual membership for $79. In addition, Learning Ally has made available new player software for both PC and Mac platforms and introduced App for iPods, iPhones, and iPads.
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Janet Evanovich Read Alikes
By Alicia Waters | July 5, 2011
An author Read Alike list for Janet Evanovich novels of contemporary romance has been added to the Talking Books Plus Reading Lists. Feel free to use this list to extend your reading pleasure.
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