Chapter 3: Implementing and Sustaining a Digital Audiobook Service
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5860/ltr.43n1Abstract
Author Tom Peters explains that his issue of Library Technology Reports , “examines in some depth digital audiobook services that can be purchased or leased. It also looks briefly at a few free online digital audiobook sources.”
According to the author, who is a librarian and an avid user of audiobooks, “The purpose of this report is not to convince librarians to implement a digital audiobook service, but to help librarians make an informed decision.”
Among the areas that Peters covers in Library Technology Reports :
Thomas A. Peters has been a librarian for nineteen years and is the founder/CEO of TAP Information Services, a company that helps libraries and library-related organizations innovate. TAP Information Services provides coordination services for Unabridged (
References
“ ListenIllinois: One-Stop Shopping for Audio Ebooks in Illinois,” Metro News 2, no. 3 (April 2006), 5, available online at www.mls.lib.il.us/news/pdf/2006_04_newsletter.pdfn“ Gadget Garage,” Princeton Public Library Web site, www.princeton.lib.nj.us/reference/techcenter/gadgetgarage.htmlnThomas A. Peters, '“Accessibility Trial of the Downloadable Digital Audio Book Service from NetLibrary and Recorded Books LLC: Final Report,” Mid-Illinois Talking Book Center and the Alliance Library System' (2005)
Available online in both HTML and Microsoft Word formats at nIbid.n“ Final Report of the Field Test of the Playaway Self-Contained Portable Digital Audio Book Player,” East Peoria, Illinois: Mid-Illinois Talking Book Center 2006 Available online at www.mitbc.org/Playaway/Playawayfinal.htmn
