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Digital magazines are here: NLS is now distributing magazines on digital cartridge. NLS will stop sending magazines on cassette in June 2013. If you plan to read magazines, you will need a digital talking book machine (DTBM) or other authorized device in order to access the digital files. Many magazines are available on the Braille and Audio Reading Download (BARD) site right now, and if you would like to set up your BARD account, please complete the brief online application at https://nlsbard.loc.gov/TXIA/ApplicationInstructions.html. For more information on digital magazines, read the special insert in this newsletter. We hope that three locally-recorded Texas magazines will soon be on BARD. Texas Highways and Texas Parks and Wildlife are being recorded digitally here in the TBP studio in Austin. Texas Monthly also is recorded digitally for TBP readers by the Recording Library of West Texas, located in Midland. All three of these magazines are available on digital cartridge, and the cassette versions have been discontinued. Please be aware that all magazines on digital cartridge must be read and sent back, regardless of the magazine or where it is mailed from. There are a limited number of digital cartridges available for magazines, and these cartridges must be used by multiple patrons and then reformatted for future issues of magazines. Please read your magazines in a timely manner and return them to the NLS distributor or to us, depending on which magazine you have. Digital magazines from NLS come in a red mailing case with a letter "M" on the top of the mailing case, so be sure to get your magazine in the right mailing case, or it will go to a wrong location. Helpful contact information for the Talking Book Program: * To order books or report a problem with your machine: 1-800-252-9605 * To request an application or ask about enrollment: 1-800-252-9605 * To access the toll-free information line: 1-866-388-6397 * To contact the Disability Information and Referral Center: 1-800-252-9605 * To contact the Public Awareness Office: 1-512-463-5452 or 1-800-252-9605 * To send email to anyone in the Talking Book Program: tbp.services@tsl.state.tx.us * To ask for assistance using BARD: 1-800-252-9605 or tbp.bard@tsl.state.tx.us * To ask a librarian for reading advice or reference assistance: 1-800-252-9605 or tbp.ral@tsl.state.tx.us * To access the TBP blog: https://www.tsl.state.tx.us/texastalkingbooks/ " To see the TBP book club schedule: https://www.tsi.state.tx.us/tbp/tbpbookclublindex.html Until next time, Ava Smith, Director, Talking Book Program The Talking Book Program will be closed on the following holidays. Thursday and Friday, July 4 - 5 - Independence Day Of course, you can leave a voicemail message or send e-mail on a holiday.
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, Spring 2013,
periodical,
Spring 2013;
Austin, Texas.
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth653584/m1/2/:
accessed July 17, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.;
crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.