5 comments

Add a comment…

Sign in

prestine

Your email address

Check!

invalid email

(thinking…)

Reset

or sign in with

• 
• 

UserVoice password

Forgot password?

Create a password

Your name

I agree to the terms of service

Signed in as (Sign out)

Close

Close

Post comment Submitting...

• Melody McCotter commented  ·  December 17, 2010 11:38 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  It seems like a union catalog of some sort would be useful. The data between the different institutions would have to be pulled together via data sharing protocols. Maybe something similar to the Z39.50 protocol for library catalogs to share MARC data. I am an information science student and would be interested in helping with this effort. Send me note!

• David Marsteller commented  ·  October 31, 2010 9:19 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Please, If we can help you in any way let us (ok especially me!) :) know!

• Heather Peterson commented  ·  October 18, 2010 2:29 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I agree with what Kelly Pierce says below and would add that Bookshare has a much better search engine than the Internet Archive does. I took one look at the Internet Archive's DAISY section and threw up my hands in horror. It would take years to track down particular topics there. And I consider myself to be reasonably tech-savvy; my work requires me to do online research a lot. So having those titles at Bookshare would be splendid.

• Kelly Pierce commented  ·  September 9, 2010 2:56 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  A key idea is missing from this exchange. The Open library is a project of the Internet Archive. Earlier this year, the Internet Archive announced that more than a million scanned books were available to the blind in DAISY format through Open Library. Unfortunately, the books can be read on two or three NLS approved portable media players, such as the victor Reader Stream. Bookshare offers greater distribution and much more expanded access to these books because books can be read on a significantly greater number of devices and platforms. Bookshare books can also be read in Braille, which is not possible with the Internet Archive arrangement with NLS. Bookshare should develop a relationship with the Internet Archive so these million plus books could be available to Bookshare members. Networking and sharing information with other organizations is good, but why is Bookshare stopping there? That’s kind of lame. Adding more than a million books to the collection for Bookshare members would be extraordinary.

• Anna J. Jones commented  ·  July 21, 2010 8:44 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  http://lbph.library.phila.gov/ this is the link I use; however I realize that is probably a state library and NLS is all states, I assume.

  Thank you for considering my suggestion and responding. I am a volunteer at Bookshare and if there is anything I can do to help, please contact me. I hold a Bachelor's Degree and have been volunteering in libraries since grade school.

  Thanks for all your hard work.

  Anna Jones