[Nfbmt] Fw: NFB-NEWSLINE Adds Two Bi-monthly NLS Publications

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From: Scott White <swhite at nfb.org>
to: Dar ALDRICH <dmgina at samobile.net>
Subject: NFB-NEWSLINE Adds Two Bi-monthly NLS Publications
Date: Mon,  8 Jun 2015 08:44:07 -0400 (EDT)


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT:

Chris Danielsen

Director of Public Relations

National Federation of the Blind

(410) 659-9314, extension 2330

(410) 262-1281 (Cell)

cdanielsen at nfb.org

NFB-NEWSLINE Adds Talking Book Topics and Braille Book Review

Baltimore, Maryland (June 8, 2015): The National Federation of the 
Blind is pleased to announce the addition of two new bimonthly 
publications to the NFB-NEWSLINE service: Talking Book Topics and 
Braille Book Review. These are published by the National Library 
Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped of the Library of 
Congress (NLS).

Mark Riccobono, President of the National Federation of the Blind, 
said: "NFB-NEWSLINE and the National Library Service are invaluable 
resources to the blind community. We are pleased with the success in 
2010 of integrating NFB-NEWSLINE into the NLS Talking Book Players, and 
we are happy to further enhance integration with NLS services by 
sharing these two bimonthly publications with our subscribers."

Talking Book Topics lists digital audiobooks and magazines available 
through the NLS network of cooperating libraries. Braille Book Review 
lists Braille books and magazines available through the library 
network. Both publications also carry news of developments in library 
services. The annotated lists in each issue of these two bimonthly 
magazines are limited to titles recently added to the national 
collection, which contains thousands of fiction and nonfiction titles, 
including bestsellers, classics, biographies, romance novels, 
mysteries, and how-to guides.

These two publications are now available on NFB-NEWSLINE. To read these 
lists of new titles added to the NLS collection, press 7 from the Main 
Menu, then choose "Magazines," then select the "Blindness Specific" 
category, and finally choose "Braille Book Review" or "Talking Book Topics."

Each book and its description are listed in these publications as a 
separate article. This means that subscribers can easily search and 
navigate through the articles to find the books of interest. 
Additionally, subscribers can press Pound 9 from the touch-tone 
telephone and have the individual book listings sent to an email inbox. 
>From there, subscribers can forward the email to a cooperating regional 
library to request the book.

Scott White, director of NFB-NEWSLINE, said:"We hope the addition of 
Talking Book Topics and Braille Book Review will help our readers 
decide what books are of interest to them and make it easier to acquire 
them from their regional Braille and Talking Book libraries."

NFB-NEWSLINE is a free audible information service available to the 
blind and print-disabled that offers over four hundred publications 
including newspapers and magazines, plus emergency weather alerts, job 
listings, and TV listings. The service is accessible via a touch-tone 
telephone, email, internet, portable players, or an iOS Mobile App. For 
more information or to register for NFB-NEWSLINE visit 
http://www.nfbnewsline.org or call 1-866-504-7300.

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About the National Federation of the Blind

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characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the 
expectations of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles 
between blind people and our dreams. You can live the life you want; 
blindness is not what holds you back.

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