[bookshare-discuss] More on Accessible Books from Australia
- From: "Roger Loran Bailey" <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:50:46 -0500
----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Kearney" <gkearney@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Roger Loran Bailey" <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>; <bardtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 6:42 PM
Subject: Re: [bardtalk] Introduction
We do produce book upon demand of the patron as well as offering public
domain works to the public at large. Remember that we can only offer the
public works in the public domain not copyrighted works. We serve both the
disabled which can get copyrighted works from us as well as the public who
can not. Books under copyright will be so noted and you will need a username
and password to download them from us.
We are working out how to provide books directly to users in the U.S. and
others by having them join our service is a system similar to Bookshare
where we can get proof of disability for the NLS there. We would like to
have reciprocity with the international libraries in this. So that if we are
loaning to people overseas that their libraries would loan to our patrons as
well. In the mean time we are able to send copyrighted books to your
regional library who can then send them to you. If you are interested please
contact us.
You can get them with postal delivery, free matter for the blind works for
international mail, but I would warn anyone wishing this that is is a slow
process taking up to 14 days at best and sometimes over a month.
Our service differs from the U.S. in that we assign a cartridge to a user
and then load that cartridge with several books and send it out. When it
comes back to us we load it with the next set of books for that user and
mail it out again. each user gets two or more cartridges assigned to them so
there are some being loaded while they have some in use.
We tweet each book as we produce it these can be found at
http://www.twitter.com/assocblindwa/
Gregory Kearney
Manager - Accessible Media
Association for the Blind of Western Australia
61 Kitchener Avenue, PO Box 101
Victoria Park 6979, WA Australia
Telephone: +61 (08) 9311 8202
Telephone: +1 (307) 224-4022 (North America)
Fax: +61 (08) 9361 8696
Toll free: 1800 658 388 (Australia only)
Email: gkearney@xxxxxxxxx
On 15/02/2010, at 1:45 AM, Roger Loran Bailey wrote:
When you said that you produced these books on demand I at first thought
that really beats the NLS's system of receiving patron input. Then I
looked at the web site and saw that on demand means only books that are
out of copyright and on a web site like Project Gutenberg. That is even
more restrictive than the NLS. I have only, though, given your web site a
cursory looking over. Before I put in the effort and time to examine it
more closely when I may not even be able to use it I would like to ask a
question. May those of us who are in the U.S. download those books and, if
so, then how are we restricted? I would assume, for example, that we may
not receive them by the postal system.
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Kearney" <gkearney@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bardtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 2:00 AM
Subject: [bardtalk] Introduction
I would like to introduce myself to the list. I am Greg Kearney,
Manager of Accessible Media at the Association for the Blind of
Western Australia. Now I know your thinking what is this person from
Australia doing on this list? Well, as it turns out we at ABWA are the
first non-U.S. library for the blind to have adopted the NLS style
cartridge and play back systems which is why I am here.
Our implementation differs in some respects from the U.S. system as
the numbers of users are very much smaller here. We produce books upon
demand and can serve readers outside of Western Australia if anyone is
interested. You can have a look at our catalogue as well as our
production systems at http://www.guidedogswa.org/
If you have any questions please feel free to ask.
Gregory Kearney
Manager - Accessible Media
Association for the Blind of Western Australia
61 Kitchener Avenue, PO Box 101
Victoria Park 6979, WA Australia
Telephone: +61 (08) 9311 8202
Telephone: +1 (307) 224-4022 (North America)
Fax: +61 (08) 9361 8696
Toll free: 1800 658 388 (Australia only)
Email: gkearney@xxxxxxxxx
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