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Digital Talking Book Player
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Updates on the transition to digital media will be posted as they become available.
To the right is a picture of a digital player and book cartridge. The digital player will be about one-third of the size the the current cassette players. Books will be recorded on a single digital cartridge that runs in the digital player. There will be two versions of the digital player: basic and advanced. Initially, only basic models will be sent out. Advanced models will be available upon request at a later date. The difference between the basic and advanced models is that the user will have much more freedom of movement throught books and the ability to set bookmarks with the advanced model.
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UPDATE ON DIGITAL TRANSITION IN TALKING BOOKS
November 19, 2008
In 2009, Talking Book and Braille Services should begin making the switch from 4-track cassette books to digital flash-drive media. In the coming months, our patrons will receive a letter inviting them to add their names to a request list for the digital machines. After the first shipments of digital machines and books are checked in to TBABS we will begin sending the first machines out to patrons. Hopefully, TBABS will begin receiving digital players from the National Library Service in May 2009. We are obligated to send machines to our registered U.S. Veterans first which should take about two to three months. This means that the first players for our general population could be going out by September or October 2009.
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DIGITAL TRANSITION UPDATE
May 15, 2008
Letters have been sent to registered patrons of Talking Books who are also U.S. Veterans of military service. See 36 CFR 701.10 (http://www.loc.gov/nls/sec701.html). Veterans with active accounts in good standing will be added to a request list for a digital player. Digital players are expected to become available to TBABS in January 2009. A separate letter to our general population of patrons will be sent out in October 2008 and will follow the same process applied to the veterans: active accounts in good standing will be added to the request list.
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