Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!bunker!hcap!hnews!203!11!Dan.Kysor From: Dan.Kysor@f11.n203.z1.fidonet.org (Dan Kysor) Newsgroups: misc.handicap Subject: BLND DATABASE & B.R.S. Message-ID: <14376@bunker.UUCP> Date: 21 Sep 90 15:14:27 GMT Sender: wtm@bunker.UUCP Reply-To: Dan.Kysor@f11.n203.z1.fidonet.org Distribution: misc Organization: FidoNet node 1:203/11 - S.I.R.E.N. NET-MAIL, Sacramento CA Lines: 17 Approved: wtm@bunker.UUCP Index Number: 10591 [This is from the Blink Talk Conference] why do we have to pay for computer access through brs of our talking book nls library system? if you check with brs, there worse than compuserve. Baytalk BBS and Compuvoice BBS in S.F. and here in Sacramento have been researching this issue. it's terrible what we have to pay. i have tried to get our state library to get an o.c.r. and scan the year-end book catalogs and release the titles as pd ware since these catalogs are not copyrighted. let me know what you think... -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!203!11!Dan.Kysor Internet: Dan.Kysor@f11.n203.z1.fidonet.org