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FROM: <[removed]@aol.com>
REC'D: 2/7/00, 8:32 PM

Slightly off topic, but I hope you can help.

Is there a service similar to the Library for Blind (which supplies free
books on tape) for Large Print books? For those people who have low vision
and can only read large print -- but do not want to resort to books on tape
while they can still read SOMETHING -- is there a service that will send LP
books through the mail free of charge? Many libraries, especially in small
towns, have a such a small LP collection that an avid reader can exhaust it
in a matter of weeks.

Thanks for your help (this affects someone in my family). You may reply to
me directly if you think the list would not be interested.
Sherri McCarthy
[removed]@aol.com

FROM: <[removed]@aol.com>
REC'D: 2/7/00, 10:37 PM

In a message dated 2/7/2000 9:43:59 PM Eastern Standard Time, [removed]@aol.com
writes:

<<
Is there a service similar to the Library for Blind (which supplies free
books on tape) for Large Print books? For those people who have low vision
and can only read large print -- but do not want to resort to books on tape
while they can still read SOMETHING -- is there a service that will send LP
books through the mail free of charge? Many libraries, especially in small
towns, have a such a small LP collection that an avid reader can exhaust it
in a matter of weeks.

Thanks for your help (this affects someone in my family). You may reply to
me directly if you think the list would not be interested.
Sherri McCarthy
[removed]@aol.com
>>

I thought the Library for the Blind did include large print books in their
service. I know they include Braille books.

My first book, THE COLOR OF LOVE, w/a Binnie Syril (Harlequin Temptation) was
accepted for transcription (I don't what medium, thought) by the Library of
Congress. And so was fellow romance writer Rebecca York's FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
(Harlequin Intrigue - 43 Light Street Series.

Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance Novelist/former librarian

Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: "J Heuer" <[removed]@itol.com>
REC'D: 2/8/00, 7:11 AM

How about just doing interloans?

--
Jeanne Heuer
Brown County Library
Green Bay, WI
[removed]@itol.com

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes, Art is knowing which ones
to keep." -anonymous

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>From: [removed]@aol.com
>To: [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
>Subject: Large Print
>Date: Mon, Feb 7, 2000, 8:37 PM
>

>
> Slightly off topic, but I hope you can help.
>
> Is there a service similar to the Library for Blind (which supplies free
> books on tape) for Large Print books? For those people who have low vision
> and can only read large print -- but do not want to resort to books on tape
> while they can still read SOMETHING -- is there a service that will send LP
> books through the mail free of charge? Many libraries, especially in small
> towns, have a such a small LP collection that an avid reader can exhaust it
> in a matter of weeks.
>
> Thanks for your help (this affects someone in my family). You may reply to
> me directly if you think the list would not be interested.
> Sherri McCarthy
> [removed]@aol.com
>

FROM: "Matt Pettit" <[removed]@tscpl.lib.ks.us>
REC'D: 2/8/00, 7:47 AM

Interloans are probably the best bet. Hook up with a nearby urban library or
consortium that has deeper pockets for large print; maybe you can cut some
deals.

----- Original Message -----
From: J Heuer <[removed]@itol.com>
To: <[removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 7:15 AM
Subject: Re: Large Print


> How about just doing interloans?
>
> --
> Jeanne Heuer
> Brown County Library
> Green Bay, WI
> [removed]@itol.com
>
> "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes, Art is knowing which
ones
> to keep." -anonymous
>
> ----------
> >From: [removed]@aol.com
> >To: [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
> >Subject: Large Print
> >Date: Mon, Feb 7, 2000, 8:37 PM
> >
>
> >
> > Slightly off topic, but I hope you can help.
> >
> > Is there a service similar to the Library for Blind (which supplies free
> > books on tape) for Large Print books? For those people who have low
vision
> > and can only read large print -- but do not want to resort to books on
tape
> > while they can still read SOMETHING -- is there a service that will send
LP
> > books through the mail free of charge? Many libraries, especially in
small
> > towns, have a such a small LP collection that an avid reader can exhaust
it
> > in a matter of weeks.
> >
> > Thanks for your help (this affects someone in my family). You may reply
to
> > me directly if you think the list would not be interested.
> > Sherri McCarthy
> > [removed]@aol.com
> >

FROM: "Lynn Silence" <[removed]@imail.slcl.lib.mo.us>
REC'D: 2/8/00, 8:49 AM

I don't really know that this will help, although there may be something
similar in your state. Our library (very large suburban) loans collections
of large print books to small libraries around the state once the titles
have circulated to our patrons for several months. We "charge them out" to
the libraries so that we can keep track of where they are, and when a
library is finished with them, we move them somewhere else en masse. There
may be a library in your state which does something similar. I assume
you've checked with your state library.

At 09:37 PM 2/7/2000 EST, you wrote:
>
>Slightly off topic, but I hope you can help.
>
>Is there a service similar to the Library for Blind (which supplies free
>books on tape) for Large Print books? For those people who have low vision
>and can only read large print -- but do not want to resort to books on tape
>while they can still read SOMETHING -- is there a service that will send LP
>books through the mail free of charge? Many libraries, especially in small
>towns, have a such a small LP collection that an avid reader can exhaust it
>in a matter of weeks.
>
>Thanks for your help (this affects someone in my family). You may reply to
>me directly if you think the list would not be interested.
>Sherri McCarthy
[removed]@aol.com
>
>
Lynn K. Silence Manager, Collection Development
St. Louis County Library
300 Clarkson Road, Ellisville, Missouri 63011
Voice: 636-227-1138, Fax: 636-227-9632
"To my thinking, a great librarian must have a clear head, a strong hand
and above all a great heart...most of the men who will achieve this greatness
will be women." Melvil Dewey

FROM: "ROBIN BEERBOWER" <[removed]@OPENGOVT.OPEN.ORG>
REC'D: 2/8/00, 10:09 AM

In Oregon there is nothing that is done statewide for this type of
service. There are a couple of public libraries that send LP
books-by-mail, but for the most part each library has its own
homebound delivery program, usually utilizing volunteers for
delivering the books. Even though a library has a limited collection,
quite a few are on a regional system of some sort and can borrow from
other libraries in their system if the outreach librarian has an idea
of what the patron likes.

Robin Beerbower
Salem (OR) Public Library
Outreach Librarian
[removed]@open.org

>>> <[removed]@aol.com> 02/07/00 06:37pm >>>

Slightly off topic, but I hope you can help.

Is there a service similar to the Library for Blind (which supplies
free
books on tape) for Large Print books? For those people who have low
vision
and can only read large print -- but do not want to resort to books on
tape
while they can still read SOMETHING -- is there a service that will
send LP
books through the mail free of charge? Many libraries, especially in
small
towns, have a such a small LP collection that an avid reader can
exhaust it
in a matter of weeks.

Thanks for your help (this affects someone in my family). You may
reply to
me directly if you think the list would not be interested.
Sherri McCarthy
[removed]@aol.com

FROM: "Marsha Valance " <[removed]@mpl.org>
REC'D: 2/9/00, 8:18 AM

In Wisconsin the state Reference & Loan Library in Madison houses an extensive collection of Large Print books for both adults and children which libraries around the state may interlibrary loan for their users. I can't speak for other states.


Marsha J. Valance
Regional Librarian
Wisconsin Regional Library f/t Blind & Physically Handicapped
813 West Wells Street
Milwaukee, Wi 53233-1436
Phone: 414/286-3010
FAX: 414/286-3102
Email: <[removed]@mpl.org>

"That All May Read"

>>> <[removed]@aol.com> 02/07 8:37 PM >>>

Slightly off topic, but I hope you can help.

Is there a service similar to the Library for Blind (which supplies free
books on tape) for Large Print books? For those people who have low vision
and can only read large print -- but do not want to resort to books on tape
while they can still read SOMETHING -- is there a service that will send LP
books through the mail free of charge? Many libraries, especially in small
towns, have a such a small LP collection that an avid reader can exhaust it
in a matter of weeks.

Thanks for your help (this affects someone in my family). You may reply to
me directly if you think the list would not be interested.
Sherri McCarthy
[removed]@aol.com

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