Talking Library is irreplaceable

9:55 PM, Apr. 8, 2013  |  Comments
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I am distressed that Library Director Kent Oliver has proposed closing the Nashville Talking Library (NTL) in a budgetary move.

His claim that NTL duplicates available services is simply untrue. While the National Federation for the Blind has a call-in news service, that news is presented by an automated voice and must be triggered with touch responses on a phone.

NTL has live readers who read the paper each morning at 7 a.m., including local items such as obituaries, letters to the editor and grocery sales. The 24-hour NTL has over 100 volunteers who record current best-selling books, magazines and other local papers of interest. This is hardly a duplication of the Tennessee Library for the Blind, which has a lending library requiring the listener to request an item and then return it upon completion.

As I sighted person, I have many options in choosing the library I visit. I am hoping Nashville will do way with the only real comprehensive library choice for Nashville's visually impaired citizens.

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