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Texas Talking Book News Texas State Library and Archives Commission Winter 2016 Talking Book Program Director's Report Greetings! Here is the latest news: Death of a narrator: Sadly, one of the great narrators of NLS books recently passed away. Roy Avers died, at his home in Indiana on November 13, 2015 at the age of 83. Mr. Avers began his narration career with the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) in 1971 and eventually narrated over 1,750 books for the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS). He became APH's first winner of the Alexander Scourby Award in 1990. For a more complete write-up on Mr. Avers, including a list of some of the books he has narrated, see Laura Jean's blog post at https://www.tsl.texas.gov/texastalkingbooks/?p=2055. Update on the new automation system: The project continues to move forward. User interface frames are being developed by the vendor; staff preview and give comments on how these frames will make the new system look and operate. Work is going forward on the new online catalog that patrons will use to search and order books.. Staff is considering bid proposals for new printers that'will produce the mailing cards for books and equipment. Work is going forward on setting up the servers in the state's remote consolidated data center. Discussions have begun on the bibliographic data that will be moved from the old system to the new and how that data will be sorted and then indexed for use. The project is still on schedule to begin some staff testing as early as April 2016. Spring cleaning: We periodically have to reconcile our inventory records. The time to do this with our machines is coming up in the spring. If you have an older machine-especially the yellow cassette player or one of the record players-that you are no longer using', please return it to us so that
we can mark it off the inventory. These older machines are still federal property,.and we are still held accountable for them on our inventories. Please be sure that you are using the correct address when returning a machine. The address is 4400B Shoal Creek Blvd., Austin, TX 78756;
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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