[Ohio-talk] bard site

[David Andrews via Ohio-talk]

NLS does have a collection development staff.  There is also an 
advisory committee to this activity, and NFB has a representative.  I 
am not sure who it is at this point.

The easiest thing to do is to pass your requests to your regional 
library.  Libraries are divided into four parts of the us, east, 
south, midwest, and west.  Each of these regions also has a 
representative on the collection development committee.

Dave

At 07:40 AM 5/23/2014, you wrote:
>                         I know that the NFB
>appoints a representative to an LLS committee. That person chairs 
>the NFB Library Committee, which meets at convention. I think that 
>those committee members of the NLS committee have some say about 
>book choice. But there are people who do nothing but choose the 
>books to be recorded. I suggest that you ask Will Reed of the 
>Cleveland Library what he knows about the process. I do know that we 
>have been told to give him our requests for old books to be 
>released. I have tried this with no success as far as I can tell. I 
>used to snag Frank Curt Silk at convention and plead with him 
>directly for books that I wanted. That had a bit more chance of 
>success. But since Karen does not bother to come to our convention 
>or make herself known if she is there, that strategy does not work.
>
>Barbara Pierce
>President Emerita
>National Federation of the Blind of Ohio
>bpierce at oberlin.net
>440-774-8077
>
>On May 23, 2014, at 6:53 AM, Marianne Denning via Ohio-talk 
><ohio-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> > I can't say for sure, but if there is a really popular author then the
> > books are added very quickly.  NLS would make the Harry Potter books
> > available within a few days after the hard cover book came out. BARD
> > is also in the process of digitizing the old collection so that is why
> > you will find books that were published a long time ago showing up.
> >
> > On 5/22/14, Jerry Purcell via Ohio-talk <ohio-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> >> Greetings,
> >>
> >>      Could anyone please give me a brief description on how bard chooses
> >> to
> >> add books to its download 
> site.  David                       just released a book at
> >> the
> >> end of April.  I didn't think it would be on bard for a while so I paid to
> >> download the book from audible.  I just noticed that the 
> commercial version
> >> of the book was on the latest additions to the bard download site.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>            Thank you Jerry Purcell
> >>
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