Published by rwatstein May 26th, 2008
in Library of Congress and audiobooks.
Blind people across the US fear they may lose access to free audiobooks because of a budget shortfall at the Library of Congress which operates the service. The National Library needs an extra $19.1m (£9.5m) a year to transfer its collection of audiobooks from antiquated tape cassettes to the latest digital format using flash technology. But Congress is expected to grant only $12.5m (£6.25m) a year, which will delay completion of the project until 2013 and could cut the production of new audiobooks.
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Published by rwatstein March 16th, 2008
in libraries and audiobooks.
Downloading an audiobook from your local library is gaining popularity as a free, convenient way to enjoy the latest bestseller while dodging traffic on the way to work or sweating through a gym workout. Eric Gwinn gets down with downloading and explains the practical points of audiobook loans.
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Judith M. Dixon, a clinical psychologist by training and a sophisticated techie by avocation, is helping to lead the Library of Congress into the digital age. Dixon, 55, who gave up university teaching 27 years ago to join the library’s National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, is a key player on a team that has been working for the better part of a decade to create a new generation of audiobooks for the library’s more than 700,000 registered blind and disabled users.
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