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Dwight D. Sayer
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FYI Refer to the following information and attached press release
provided by Susan Roberts, Bureau Chief of the Library.
Phyllis Dill
Administrative Assistant II
Florida Rehabilitation Council f/t Blind
Division of Blind Services
325 W. Gaines St., Room 1114
Tallahassee, FL 32399
850/245-0392
FAX: 850/245-0363
Phyllis.Dill at dbs.fldoe.org
From: NLS Documents for Network Librarians
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Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 10:06 AM
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Subject: Operations Alert 13-58 (BARD Mobile press release)
NLS Operations Alert
No. 13-58
DATE : September 25, 2013
TO : Network Libraries
FROM : Jane Caulton, Head, Publications and Media Section
SUBJECT : BARD Mobile press release
The following press release was issued by the Library of Congress Public
Affairs Office on Tuesday, September 23. Please feel free to distribute this
to your media outlets.
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For more information contact:
Jane Caulton
Head, Publications and Media Section
_jcau at loc.gov_ (mailto:jcau at loc.gov)
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Library of Congress Braille and Talking-Book Program
Releases Book Download App through Apple
People who are blind, visually impaired or have a physical disability may
now download audio and braille books to their iPhone, iPad or iPod touch,
if they are registered with the National Library Service for the Blind and
Physically Handicapped (NLS) in the Library of Congress.
The Braille and Audio Reading Download (BARD) Mobile app is now available
through the Apple App Store. The app, which is free, allows readers to
download audio and braille books from their NLS BARD accounts. Access to BARD
is provided through local cooperating libraries. BARD contains nearly 50,000
books, magazines and music scores in audio and braille formats, with new
selections added daily.
NLS Director Karen Keninger said, “The BARD Mobile app allows searching,
downloading and reading braille and talking books and magazines on one fully
accessible, mainstream device. It’s a library in your pocket.”
She explained, “With BARD Mobile, patrons can play talking books and
magazines on their iOS devices. Patrons may also read electronic braille books,
magazines and music scores using a refreshable braille display connected to
their iPhone, iPad or iPod touch through Bluetooth.” Patrons will be able
to receive their reading materials faster and won’t have to be weighted
down with bulky volumes or playback equipment.
NLS has provided free library service for people who have visual
disabilities for more than 80 years and for people with physical disabilities since
1966. Best known as the talking-book program, NLS upgraded its analog
program to digital in 2009.
“Audiobooks are provided on cartridges for use with digital playback
equipment that provides high-level navigation capability, high-quality sound and
other features, which are provided without cost to the reader,” Keninger
said. “Around the same time, NLS launched BARD, which permitted patrons who
had access to high-speed Internet to download their audiobooks, as braille
readers had been doing with the Web-Braille system since 1999. BARD now
merges the two systems.
“BARD Mobile is another benchmark in our use of technology to enhance the
delivery and reading experience of NLS patrons,” Keninger said. “NLS
developed the BARD Mobile app in response to demand from our borrowers. Blind
and disabled Americans are as keen as everyone else to use mobile devices.
Our younger patrons are particularly eager to use the same gadgets as their
peers.”
BARD Mobile will make reading not only more accessible, but more portable.
“We anticipate that significant numbers of readers will adopt the app as
their primary reading device,” Keninger said. “As a growing percentage of
blind and disabled Americans adopt mobile devices, the app will provide a
highly valued avenue to NLS materials.”
Eligible users may even find the free braille and talking-book program
more attractive. Keninger explained, “This new, instant and convenient package
will increase the appeal of audio and braille reading.”
NLS is also working on an app for Android devices.
NLS, which is part of the Library of Congress, administers the braille and
talking-book program, a free library service available to residents of the
United States and its territories and American citizens living abroad
whose low vision, blindness or physical disability makes reading regular print
difficult. Through its national network of cooperating libraries, NLS mails
digital audio players and books and magazines—in audio and in braille—
directly to enrollees at no cost. Music instructional materials are available
in large-print, braille and recorded formats. Select materials are also
available online for download. To learn more, call 1-888-NLS-READ or visit
_www.loc.gov/nls/find.html_ (http://www.loc.gov/nls/find.html) .
The Library of Congress, the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution
and the largest library in the world, holds more than 155 million items in
various languages, disciplines and formats. The Library serves the U.S.
Congress and the nation both on-site in its reading rooms on Capitol Hill and
through its award-winning website at _www.loc.gov_ (http://www.loc.gov/) .
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