<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">From the talking book library:</span><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="text-align: left; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You asked, and NLS listened! The January-February 2014 issue of the bimonthly catalogs, Talking Book Topics (TBT) and Braille Book Review (BBR), will have changes requested by patrons around the country. The longer, 50-word descriptions for each book are back!</span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: left; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Titles will now be arranged in a different order to make finding your favorite types of books much easier:</div></span><span style="text-align: left; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">1) As before, the titles are listed under broad headings: Books for Adults, Books for Children, and Foreign Language Books.</div></span><span style="text-align: left; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">2) Within Books for Adults and Books for Children, titles are subdivided into Fiction and Nonfiction. Fiction will now be listed first, since it comes first alphabetically.</div></span><span style="text-align: left; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">3) Inside the Fiction and Nonfiction genres, titles are listed by their subject categories in A-to-Z order. For example, the Adult Fiction titles for this issue of TBT are ordered by subject from Adventure to Westerns.</div></span><span style="text-align: left; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">4) Within each subject category, the titles are arranged alphabetically by the author’s last name. </div></span><span style="text-align: left; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">5) If there is more than one title by a given author, the titles are further organized alphabetically by title. </div></span></span><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><span style="text-align: left; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">For example if you are interested in Stephen King’s latest novel Joyland, you would look under Adult Fiction, then in Mystery and Detective, and then for the last name King.</div></span><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: left; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">The new arrangement eliminates the need for an index. In addition, the 2013 edition of Digital Talking Books Plus will be the last audiobook catalog produced and the 2011–2012 edition of Braille Books will be the last braille book catalog. The biennial </div></span><span style="text-align: left; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">For Younger Readers catalog will continue.</div></span></span><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><span style="text-align: left; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">Questions? Contact the Kentucky Talking Book Library at <a href="tel:1-800-372-2968" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; ">1-800-372-2968</a>, <a href="tel:(502) 564-8300" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; ">(502) 564-8300</a> ext 276, or <a href="mailto:ktbl.mail@ky.gov">ktbl.mail@ky.gov</a>.</div></span></div></body></html>