[Publib] Recorded classics

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On Sat, February 3, 2007 1:47 pm, Joan Kelleher, Director said:
> Hi
> I have a patron who is attending a community college. She is sight
> impaired and I was wondering if there is anyone out there who is
> recording classics such as Agamemnon, Medea or Electra. I would
> appreciate any help. Thanks again for everyone's help.
> Joan
>


Here is a web site that has free public domain audiobooks:

http://www.librivox.org/

It looks like there are some classics, but since it's being done by
volunteers, it may take a while for all of them to be available.

I am assuming you are in New York, if so she might want to try the state
Talking Book and Braille Library:

http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/tbbl/

If it is the same as ours in Minnesota, they record books to audio that
are not available commercially.


Some of our branches have assistive technology that make any internet
e-book site (such as Project Gutenburg
<http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page>) into audio through
text-to-speech technology:

http://www.sppl.org/userguide/assistive-tech.html


--Andrea Herman
  St. Paul Public Library