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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-NZ link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif;color:black'>Hi All,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif;color:black'>Not sure if everyone is aware that under the Marrakesh treaty Braille books can now freely be shared via the Accessible Books Consortium (ABC).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif;color:black'>I think I last heard there are 23 member countries whose blind foundations are now sharing with each other and this recently includes the entire NLS Bard catalogue & CNIB, plus smaller collections like ours in NZ. If your country isn’t involved this is something you might want to push for. And if you are having things transcribed in a member country making sure the local blind foundation library catalogues, adds and shares these.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif;color:black'>But what nobody seemed to know until mentioned a few months ago on an NZ blind chat list by Martine Able is that there is a supplementary members catalogue where individuals can sign in and download directly from. To do this you do have to be a member of the library of a blind foundation who is one of the 17 that have joined this supplementary catalogue and there is a list on the website of those that have. You fill in the online registration and then they check with your library to approve you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="http://www.abcglobalbooks.org/">www.abcglobalbooks.org/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif;color:black'>I have had some titles that haven’t shown up in the members supplementary catalogue that then my library has still been able to access via their ABC log-in to the main catalogue. So it isn’t a perfect system. RNIB as far as I know have not joined and some members like Vision Australia have not subscribed to the supplementary catalogue system so can only access ABC via their own library service and not directly. But anyone can search the catalogue without logging in, so it still might be a help.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif;color:black'>Jeanie<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>