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Texas Talking Book News Texas State Library and Archives Commission Summer 2013 Director's Report Greetings! Here is the latest news: Overdue magazines: NLS began sending out magazines on digital cartridges a few months ago, and we're already seeing big problems with overdues. Please return your magazines within one week of receiving them! You cannot keep magazines because the contract producers need the cartridges back in order to produce the next cycle of magazines. In the case of Texas magazines, we only have a limited number of cartridges and only produce a set number of copies of each issue. If you do not return the magazines mailed to you, then two things are going to happen: 1) there won't be enough magazines for everybody to read; and 2) you will be dropped from the magazine mailings because you have overdues. Please read your magazines as soon as possible after you receive them in the mail. Please don't set them aside, thinking that you'll read them, later. "Later" comes around a lot faster than you realize, and then, you've got overdue items on your account. If you have access to a computer and the Internet, you can download your magazines from BARD. Downloading from BARD allows you to keep your magazines for as long as you like and read them whenever you want to. Do you have loose containers and cartridges?: If you have any containers and can't find the cartridge that goes in it, or, if you have a cartridge and can't find the container, please send those individual pieces back to us! If you have the odd container, you can turn over the mailing card so that our address is showing and then put it in the mail. If you can't find the mailing card, we can send you another mailing card-just call 1-800-252-9605 and ask a reader consultant for a replacement mailing card. If you have a cartridge and cannot find the container, just call 1-800-252-9605 and ask for a mailer for a loose cartridge. We'll send you one with the mailing label already affixed. Put your cartridge in the mailer and put it in the mail. Remember, mail these items separately. When they arrive at our Circulation facility, staff will know that individual pieces need to be processed in a certain way. Please do not put a lonely cartridge into a lonely container, because what appears to be a mismatched book is processed in a different way, and staff will be calling you to send back the other pieces. Likewise, do not put a lonely cartridge in with another cartridge in its container. Putting more than one cartridge into a container warps the container, making it unusable.
Commercial audio books are now available on BARD: NLS recently signed an agreement with a major publishing group to have the group's audio books added to BARD; some of these books already are available for download. All of these books will contain "commercial audiobook" in the summary blurb on BARD. NLS hopes to make similar agreements with other publishing groups. The major advantage to such agreements is that
Newsletter of the Texas Talking Book Program discussing the group's news and events, suggestions about books available through the program, and other relevant information.
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission. Talking Book Program.Texas Talking Book News, Summer 2013,
periodical,
Summer 2013;
Austin, Texas.
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth639932/m1/1/:
accessed July 17, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.;
crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.