[Menvi-discuss] Accessible Books Consortium

[Leslie Costello]

 Richard,
I haven't received any journals. I searched online but couldn't find anything past 2013. Where/how do we receive the journals? 
    On Saturday, September 10, 2022 at 06:40:31 PM EDT, Richard Taesch via Menvi-discuss <menvi-discuss at menvi.org> wrote:  
 
 Just a reminder that our last journal sent to all MENVI subscribers included a fine article by our specialist, Stephanie Pieck, concerning the Marrakesh Treaty. -
Richard TaeschRecipient - Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award - 2017
Author  - "For all too soon" - The Seasons of a Music Teacher - 2021             - "An Introduction to Music for the Blind Student" - SeriesFounder - Music Education Network for - The Visually Impaired


On Sat, Sep 10, 2022 at 1:17 PM Jeanie Willis via Menvi-discuss <menvi-discuss at menvi.org> wrote:


Hi All,

 

Not sure if everyone is aware that under the Marrakesh treaty Braille books can now freely be shared via the Accessible Books Consortium (ABC).

 

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.

 

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.

www.abcglobalbooks.org/

 

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.

 

Jeanie

 
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