Hello again
As a blind Ph.D researcher at Loughborough I'm interested in what public (non-academic) libraries views are on a core service that public libraries might offer visually impaired members. I imagine in the past it's been a case of stocking audiobooks, mostly in traditional formats such as cassette or CD, and then waiting for potential users to find out about them and borrow them.
I was wondering whether anyone on this list had ever considered scanning print books under the license available to non-profit organisations from the Copyright Licensing Agency, and using some of the more advanced conversion software out there to generate an alternative format version from the scanned file.
An even more radical idea would be for public libraries to receive publisher files and use these in the same way as described in the last paragraph to cut out the scanning.
I'd be very interested in people's reactions to these ideas.
Thanks.
Guy
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