| Free Scriptures Available
The most popular book ever published? The Holy Bible! The most popular part of the Bible? The New Testament. The most difficult book to borrow through this library? The Holy Bible - New Testament.
If you would like to have your own cassette recording of the New Testament, King James version, at no charge, please call and let us know. An organization in Florida called Aurora Ministries Bible Alliance has announced that is willing to provide these, but they do ask that we fill out a form certifying that each request is from a library user or other eligible print-impaired individual.
We will complete and submit the request on your behalf, and the New Testament will be sent directly to you.
Aurora Ministries has recorded the Scriptures in 52 languages, including French, Spanish, Hmong and Vietnamese. If you'd prefer a language other than English, please call to see if it's available. AMBA also offers several Bible Studies tapes, in English.
Our library includes a variety of inspirational books, including biographies, available for you to borrow. Call Mary or Sherry, who will be glad to help you select something that you'll find rewarding.
Pioneers Win Volunteer Award
Congratulations to our Bell Atlantic Telephone Pioneers! Their group was selected as New Hampshire Volunteer Group of the Year 1997. The Award was presented by Governor Jeanne Shaheen in a ceremony held December 1, 1997.
Pioneers contributed some 56,000 hours of service to communities and organizations during 1997. Some made "Hug-A-Bears" for police and emergency personnel to give to children involved in frightening situations like car accidents or house fires; some are trained clowns, entertaining children and adults in hospitals and at special events. Pioneers also work hard for the success of Special Olympics.
Where would New Hampshire's Junior Achievement program be without the $60,000 raised by Pioneers through the Mini-Indy cart race? Without Pioneer work and planning skills, would we have our first planned-for-handicapped-access State Park, Northwood Meadows? More than 11,000 hours of planning and design, trail building and construction work were given by Pioneers.
Here at the Library, Pioneers maintain and repair all the cassette players we lend to readers. Last year alone they repaired approximately 700 machines. This valuable technical service would have cost us at least $51,000 if we'd had to go to a commercial service.
So we thank the Pioneers for their generosity and kindness! We can't run a photo, but we do want to name those Pioneers who keep your equipment running -
William Beers, Arthur Briggs, Orrin Chase, Bernard Colgan, Gerald Faneuf, Richard Jones, Donald Lower, Leonard Nystedt, Richard Sibley, Robert Stevens and John Ton.
Thank you all for a hard job well done!
Medicare Information on Cassette
The Health Care Finance Administration has sent us a set of cassettes that may be of interest to anyone eligible for Medicare. The topics are:
- 1997 Guide to Health Insurance for People with Medicare
- Medicare Coverage of Kidney Dialysis and Kidney Transplant Services
- Medicare Managed Care
- Medicare Hospice Benefits
- Medicare Savings for Qualified Beneficiaries
- Medicare Home Health
- Medicare & Medicaid Guide to Choosing a Nursing Home
- Medicare Advanced Directives
- Medicare & Other Health Benefits: Who Pays First?
Another four cassettes are available in Spanish:
- Medicare: la atencion administrada
- Cobertura de Medicare para los servicios de dialisis y transplante de rinon
- Medicare ahorros para beneficios calificados
- Medicare: la atention de la salud a domocilio
These cassettes play at 1-7/8 ips, a speed available on the C-1 machines (battery powered) but not on the E-1 (plug-in only).
Please call us to borrow any of these cassettes.
Testimonials Wanted
We are planning a radio campaign to promote Talking Books. Do you have something good to say about our service? Call us and let us know that you're willing to record a short "good word" on our behalf for a 3-second PSA (public service announcement).
Pam's Picks
Every issue, Pam Ober will be offering some reading suggestions - books that she and others have enjoyed, but that haven't been getting as much attention as those "blockbusters".
RC 38266 REST IN PIECES
RC 40219 MURDER AT MONTICELLO by Rita Mae Brown
If you like Lillian Jackson Brown and her sleuthing Siamese (The Cat Who...) give "Mrs.Murphy", a tigerstriped Sherlock, and her corgi pal "Tee" a try.
RC 39560 MUTANT MESSAGE DOWN UNDER by Marlo Morgan
A non-Aboriginal woman's tale of her surprise "walkabout" with a native tribe across the Australian desert.
RC 42305 GRASS DANCER by Susan Power
Set on a Sioux reservation, these interlocking tales weave back & forth through time from the 1860s to the 1980s.
RC 39260 SISTERS AND LOVERS by Connie Briscoe
Move over, Terry McMillan! (Waiting to Exhale) Here's a tale of three Afro-American sisters trying to balance life, love, family & work.
RC 31038 DRAGON by Clive Cussler
Non-stop action, hairbreadth escapes and tongue in cheek repartee keep superhero Dirk Pitt and pal Al Giordino busy as they seek to save the world from atomic destruction.
Soon to be Released...
RC 40947 THE WEDDING by Dorothy West
A Black woman from an elite community on Martha's Vineyard marries a white musician to set off this family story spanning five generations. An Oprah's Book Club selection and a made-for-tv movie starring Halle Berry.
Each day as our volunteers open, check and repack each and every cassette book you return, we all murmur a "Thank you!" to those of you who take the time to rewind your cassettes. We can check and repack at least two books in the time it takes to rewind one, so rewound books get back onto the shelves faster.
Since we first asked for your help, the quantity of rewound books has risen tremendously. This has been a great help to us, and it's made our service to you a faster one. Thanks very much!
For those of you who've joined this library in the past year and would like to help, here's how -
When the cassette is in the player braille side up, press Rewind until the tape stops
When it's in the player braille side down, press Fast Forward.
That's all! (Thank you, Jason W.)
If you get a defective book, please call to report it.
Put a rubber band around the cassette that was the problem; we'll check that carefully and take the book out of service until we can repair it. Sometimes what seems to be a book problem can actually be a machine problem - and vice versa. Sometimes we can solve a machine problem right over the telephone, so please never hesitate to call us.
Color-ful Quiz
Spring is in the air! Soon lawns will be greening, blossoms will be blooming and our lives will be full of color once more. To help you get ready, here's a quiz for you - just match the "colorful" book title with its author. There are some real posers here - Good Luck! The answers are somewhere in this newsletter.
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| 1) Red Badge of Courage |
A) Anna Sewell |
| 2) Old Yeller |
B) Gail Goodwin |
| 3) Blue Nile |
C) Fred Gipson |
| 4) Anne of Green Gables |
D) Charles M. Schultz |
| 5) Clockwork Orange |
E) Stephen Crane |
| 6) Color Purple |
F) Oscar Wilde |
| 7) Charlie Brown Christmas |
G) Alan Moorehead |
| 8) Black Beauty |
H) Ian Fleming |
| 9) Black Sunday |
I) Thomas Harris |
| 10) Picture of Dorian Gray |
J) Christine Weston |
| 11) Goldfinger |
K) Myrtle Reed |
| 12) Violet Clay |
L) Alice Walker |
| 13) Indigo |
M) L.M. Montgomery |
| 14) Lavender & Old Lace |
N) Anthony Burgess |
Scourby Award Nominations Open
AFB invites nominations for the 12th annual Alexander Scourby Narrator of the Year Awards. All Talking Book readers are eligible to nominate a narrator in each of two categories: fiction and nonfiction.
To cast your vote, send your choices (one per category) to the
American Foundation for the Blind
Communications Group
11 Penn Plaza, suite 300
New York NY 10001.
You can e-mail selections to afbnews@aft.org or telephone 1-800-232-5463. Deadline is March 27!
Sight Services for Independent Living is a comprehensive, no-cost program for people who are 55 and older, living at home and contending with visual impairment. Since it began in July 1995, SSIL has provided information, adaptive aids, training and support to more than 1000 New Hampshire residents through service delivery teams combining professionals and trained volunteer peer counselors.
SSIL groups have met at 19 different locations around the State, and the program has installed closed circuit television reading units (CCTVs) in 14 public libraries and 3 senior centers. These devices magnify printed or written material up to 60 times, and can be used by anyone who finds it difficult to use regular print - reading bills and letters, managing a checkbook, etc.
The public libraries are in:
| Berlin |
Manchester |
| Concord |
Nashua |
| Dover |
Peterborough |
| Franklin |
Plymouth |
| Keene |
Portsmouth |
| Lebanon |
Rochester |
| Littleton |
Salem |
The senior centers are:
- Bourdon Senior Center, Claremont
- Sunrise Towers, Laconia
- Senior Center, North Conway
If you are interested in improving your skills at independent travel, personal and/or household management, benefits planning, communication, low vision management, SSIL may be the organization to contact. It is funded by a five-year grant through the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (amended 1992) and is administered by the NH Department of Education. For more information, call us - or contact the SSIL Program Coordinator Walt Wilcox at 1-800-581-6881.
Quiz answers
1-E
2-C
3-G
4-M
5-N
6-L
7-D |
8-A
9-I
10-F
11-H
12-B
13-J
14-K |
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