[Nfb-history] NFB Material in DAISY Format

[Peter Donahue]

Hello Tina and listers,

    My understanding is that the national office is working on creating a 
DAISY version of Walking Alone and Marching Together. Perhaps they're doing 
the same with other publications and will role them out when the holdings of
the Jacobus TenBroek Library go online later this year. My guess is that
this will be a component of the new Library management system being
developed and implemented by the NFB Jernigan Institute. This is all I 
know.Perhaps Ed Morman can comment on the status of this project and the 
availability of NFB Material in DAISY Format.

Peter Donahue


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tina Hansen" <th404 at comcast.

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To: "Discussion of Digital Talking Books" <dtb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Cc: <Nfb-history at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 11:20 PM
Subject: [Dtb-talk] Kernel Books or Other Publications in DAISY?


Something I've been wanting to see for some time is our kernel books and/or
other publications offered in DAISY format. I know that we have some kernel
books on the NLS download site, along with some of the titles in our
Critical Concerns in Blindness series, but that's about it. I'd really love
to see Walking Alone and Marching Together done as DAISY. I know that RFB&D
has that book, but it's not very well marked up.

Also, what about one of the first books in that Critical Concerns series:
Freedom for the Blind: the Secret is Empowerment? NLS offered that on tape,
but I've not seen it on the download site yet.

So I will ask: Is anyone out there willing to take on a project like this,
especially if the original master tapes are still in good shape? Maybe
someone in our Living History group could take this on. Or maybe someone at
the National Center. Thanks.

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