[Dtb-talk] NLS Digital Happenings Speech

[David Andrews]

As NLS has said previously, part of the reason the time frame is long is that the price of flash memory had to come down to affordable levels -- which it has.

Digital magazines will be available for download when the download project goes live later this year.  And ... trust me, it is worth waiting for.

Dave

At 05:18 PM 4/27/2007, you wrote:

>I was very disappointed to listen to this lecture and hear that NLS still
>has no concrete date for making digital magazines available to patrons.
>Magazines will benefit from digital book navigation far more than the NLS
>books, which are mostly narrative.
>
>It sure seems like the NLS digital project is moving at government speed.
>
>Tom Shults
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>Neil Bernstein, National Library Service (NLS) research and development
>officer, was the keynote speaker for the annual meeting of the Friends of
>Wolfner
>Library held April 21, 2007. Neil speaks on the NLS migration from analog to
>digital talking books. In his one hour presentation, he demonstrates and
>describes
>the new digital talking book machine, explains AMR-WB+ codec, digital
>download project and speaks on other vital issues occurring at this time of
>momentous
>change in the national cooperative network library system.
>
>You can listen to the speech by going to Wolfner Library's web site at:
>
>http://www.sos.mo.gov/wolfner/friends.asp?id=keynote
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Richard J. Smith, Director
>
>Wolfner Library
>
>Missouri State Library
>P.O. Box 387
>Jefferson City, MO  65102
>
>Phone:  573-522-2767
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>In Missouri: 800-392-2614
>Fax:  573-751-6734
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>Email: richard.smith at sos.mo.gov
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>Web Site: http://www.sos.mo.gov/wolfner/
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