I was about to think that was great news when I went to take a look. The first 4 of the 571 books I checked out all had rc prefixes. When I've done author/title searches for books where I am certain of the number, they have never shown up. Glad you tried though, I never considered a keyword search. Nice idea. ----- Original Message ----- From: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2009 11:52 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Book submitted: Snakes This is interesting. I was not even aware of CB books. In fact, I was not aware of NLS books before the ones designated TB and had not even thought about it. After reading this message, though, I just went to the NLS catalog and entered CB in the key word search field. Over 500 hits came up. I will take a look at that later, but for right now I only looked at the details of the first one. That one turned out to be a rerecording of a CB book. Do you know of any other letters or other designations that would allow me to find books in the catalog issued before the TB titles. Even though I prefer the digital format I do have an NLS tape player on hand so I can conceive of ordering an early book on tape. If it is on disk, though, I doubt I would want to go to the trouble unless it was really special in some way. Mostly, I am just curious about what was going on in library services for the blind long before I became blind myself or was even thinking of being blind. The CB books have just now come to me as a revelation. "Philosophers have merely interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it." Karl Marx table with 2 columns and 6 rows Subj: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Book submitted: Snakes Date: 5/3/2009 12:07:55 AM Eastern Daylight Time From: garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx Reply-to: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent from the Internet (Details) table end The books to which I refer may have had the designation 'tb'. If they were produced previous to that they had no prefix as far as I can remember. Those prior to the prefix "tb" aren't even listed in the catalog. Their titles, authors, narrators, have been omitted as were those of the 'CB' books which came out on standard speed, 2 track, cassettes. block quote ----- Original Message ----- From: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 10:43 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Book submitted: Snakes Actually, there has been some discussion on the BARD list lately about old talking books. The word from the NLS employees who monitor the list is that pretty much all books that have been in the NLS collection are still available. If, in the on-line catalog, it says that a book has been withdrawn it only means that the regional libraries no longer have copies on hand. It is still possible to get the old RD books if you are willing to wait for one of the bulky record players to be shipped to you from some far-flung storage facility and if you are willing to wait for the RD books themselves to be shipped from some far-flung storage facility -- in other words, if you are willing to go to a lot of trouble -- you can still get virtually any book the NLS has ever recorded. "Philosophers have merely interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it." Karl Marx table with 2 columns and 6 rows Subj: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Book submitted: Snakes Date: 5/1/2009 11:01:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx Reply-to: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent from the Internet (Details) table end I've been meaning to thank you for all these short books on animals. I think from time to time that I would want to know something fairly basic about some animal or other and the easiest place to find it out would be in the kinds of books you've been adding to the collection over the years. I remember very short books in the Library of Congress Talkingbook program about particular mammals and birds which included typical sounds they made and I don't think these can be found in the collection any longer--not the specific books, but even something similar. Minus the audio, however, it can be found here. That's great. block quote ----- Original Message ----- From: Shelley Rhodes To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 9:01 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Book submitted: Snakes O.k. so i know some might not want to read this, smile. But it is fascinating. Snakes Part of the World Life Library. Should be a really easy proof, have read through it. Also, Still have How do You Spell Presbyterian Outcast of Redwall which is a great fiction series And Twenty Names in Art. All of these are easy proofs have been read through completely and should be quick easy credit for someone, please don't let them languish, smile, especially Twenty Names it has sat long enough. Smile. Shelley L. 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