LC/NLS Announces 25 New Magazines!

Beginning In January of 1998, an array of exciting new magazines will be available to you - eleven in braille, and fourteen in audio form.

For the first time, some of the NLS magazines are to be available on cassette. These include Cricket (combined on one cassette with National Geographic World, Seventeen, Spider, Sports Illustrated for Kids, and Young Adult Magazine of the Month, a different young reader's magazine sampled every month.

The new flexible disc magazines include Asimov's Science Fiction, Computer Life, Diabetes Forecast, Discover, Eating Well, the Health & Nutrition Newsletters (the Johns Hopkins Medical Letter-- Health After Fifty, Nutrition Action Healthletter, Dr. Andrew Weil's Self Healing, and Healthline), the New York Times Book Review, People, and Working Woman.

Among the new magazines in braille are Muse, Spider and Stone Soup, all for children;Harper's, the Health Newsletters (Berkeley Wellness Letter, Mayo Clinic Health Letter, andHarvard Health Letter), Kiplinger's Personal Finance, Martha Stewart Living, PC World, and Rolling Stone, for adults; and Conundrum and Short Stories, both British magazines.

These new magazines are either additions or substitutions to the LC/NLS magazine program. Talking Book Topics and Braille Book Review will include a complete roster of magazine offerings beginning with the July-August issues, along with information on subscribing to the new magazines. Subscribers to the magazines that are being dropped will be transferred to the replacement titles automatically - PC Computing readers will automatically receive PC World, Prevention readers will receive the Health & Nutrition Newsletters.

This is the first major modification of the LC/NLS magazine program in thirty years, and is the result of a year's work by two national advisory committees and a public opinion research firm. The changeover has been designed to produce minimum disruption of magazine service.

Magazine Service Summary

On Cassette

• Cricket with National Geographic World
• Seventeen
• Spider
• Sports Illustrated for Kids
• Young Adult Magazine of the Month

In Braille discontinued

• Asimov's Science Fiction now FD only
• Braille Journal of Physiotherapy
• Braille Variety News
• Consumers Research
• Fortune
• Journal of Rehabilitation
• Madam
• New Beacon
• Progress

braille substitutions

• Better Homes & Gardens readers will get Martha Stewart Living
• Children's Digest readers will get Stone Soup
• Encore readers will get Diabetes Forecast
• Jack & Jill readers will get Spider
• PC Computing readers will get PC World

new braille titles added

• Conundrum
• Harper's
• Health Newsletters
• Kiplinger's Personal Finance
• Muse
• Rolling Stone
• Short Stories

On Flexible Disc (FD) discontinued

• Farm Journal
• Foreign Affairs
• Harper's
• Journal of Counseling & Development
• Kiplinger's Personal Finance
• New York Times Large Print Weekly
• Preservation
• Social Work
• The Writer

FD substitutions

• Encore readers will get Diabetes Forecast
• Jack & Jill readers will get Spider
• Natural Historyreaders will get Discover
• Prevention will get the Health & Nutrition Newsletters
• Ranger Rickreaders will get Spider
• Washington Post Book Worldreaders will getNY Times Book Review

new FD titles added

• Asimov's Science Fiction
• Computer Life
• Eating Well
• People
• Working Woman

If you subscribe to magazines on the "substitutions" list, you will automatically receive the January 1998 issue of the replacement title. You don't have to do a thing.

If you would like to subscribe to any of the new titles being added in January, call or write to us and we'll enter your subscription now, to begin in January.

Need a Laugh?

We have purchased a series of commercial cassettes called "The Golden Age of Radio Comedy", with selections from shows of the 1930s and 1940s, from Abbott & Costello to Red Skelton. Each show is complete with the theme music and original commercials. We've packaged these in 2-cassette units and called them

Golden Age Radio Comedy 1 through 10.

We expect these to be very popular, but we have only one set, so please be patient AND return them promptly for others to enjoy!

AFB's Scourby Award Winners 1997

The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) has announced the winners of the 1997 Alexander Scourby Awards for Excellence in Narrating.

This year's fiction award went to Mary Woods who has recorded over 200 titles since 1979, including such popular authors as Mary Higgins Clark.

The nonfiction award was to Jack Fox, who works at the American Printing-House in Louisville, KY. Mr. Fox has narrated more than 250 titles since 1977.

Ed Blake, who has narrated more than 450 titles since beginning at AFB in 1969, received the award for multi-lingual fiction. Among the titles that demonstrate Mr. Blake's fluency in five languages are The Land & People of Finland (RC 34910), Miguel de Cervantes (RC 36865), Saint- Exupery: a Biography (RC 40034) and Prizzi's Money (RC 37872).

Congratulations to all three winners!

News About Diabetes Services

The New Hampshire General Court passed, and the Governor signed, HB 511 requiring health insurors to provide coverage for certain supplies, services and education necessary in the treatment of diabetes. This law makes changes to many earlier laws on various kinds of health insurors and takes effect On January 1, 1998. If you would like a Large Print copy of this law, please call this library to request it.

The American Diabetes Association and the American Dietetic Assiciation have prepared a braille edition of "Exchange Lists for Meal Planning." The 82-page edition costs $10.00 and includes exchange lists, nutrition guidance, tips for selecting appropriate foods, a glossary and an index. Order from:
the Louis Braille Center
320 Dayton Street suite 125
Edmonds WA 98020.
lbc-brl@worldnet.att.net.

Special Tips for Students

We KNOW you're busy - keeping up with your classes and assignments, activities, sports, Scouts & such - so we've gone through our files to update everybody.

If you were born in 1980 or earlier, we made sure your file is coded as ADULT and we changed your subject codes to match. Otherwise, we made sure you would not get any books that were too young for you unless you asked for them. But maybe, as you've grown, your interests have changed! Why not give us a call? We can make sure that what you like to read and what we think you like are the same.

Please remember that everybody using the special cassette player MUST borrow at least one book a year. September is a good month to borrow, before all the "good stuff" goes out to those other readers who'll forget to return just exactly what you want to read. And try returning the books you borrowed, too.

And a Word to Parents

We'd like to introduce the Family Resource Connection, a special service of the State Library that provides information about all aspects of raising, caring for, and educating young children.

It's a free lending library of books, videos, journal articles and other child-related materials;

It's a statewide information & referral center connecting families with services and programs to meet the needs of their children;

It's a free research service with access to current reference sources, state & national library catalogs and electronic databases for literature searches.

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder? Emotional Disorders? Gifted & Talented? Shyness? Sibling Rivalry? When it comes to children, all questions are important.

The Family Resource Connection is located at the N.H. State Library, 20 Park Street, Concord NH and can be reached easily by calling 1-800-298-4321.