Bringing The Printed Word To Life: The Information

Transfer Cycle For

CREATIONContent for recordings or broadcasts is

current, local, and general interest material (newspapers, periodicals and

books). Its signal reaches much of Kansas, Western Missouri, and

Northern Oklahoma.

RECORDING & REPRODUCTIONContent is assigned to and read or recorded by volunteers. One of three local newspaper feeds,

depending on the listener’s location, is broadcast live. Periodicals, national newspapers, and books are recorded for later broadcast. More

recordings are available via Telephone Reader, an on-demand, menu-driven system accessed by

touch tone telephone.

DISSEMINATIONRaw recordings are edited, formatted,

and aired via FM carrier current signal received by a specialized radio unit, by

telephone, or Internet streaming.

BIBLIOGRAPHIC CONTROL & ORGANIZATION BY DISCIPLINE

Broadcasts are scheduled by material type - similar material at the same time every day. Local newspaper

highlights are aired live in the morning, regional newspapers in the afternoon. Magazines, books, catalogs, and other periodicals are broadcast later in the day (and

available via satellite to other radio reading systems). Entire newspapers, store ads, and specially requested

material available from Telephone Reader.

DIFFUSIONSpecial radio receivers are distributed to listeners

who need them. Radios are loaned by Audio Reader at no cost to the listener with a visual disability.

Radios are obtained with certification of the disability by a doctor or social worker.

UTILIZATIONProgram Guide is assembled and

distributed, in large print or Braille format, to listeners with visual disabilities.

Listeners find broadcasts or recordings of newspapers and publications as well as the current selection of specialty programming.

PRESERVATIONAfter being aired on the radio, the

current broadcast remains available for a week for streaming or downloading

from Audio Reader’s web site.

DELETIONEach time new recordings are made,

the prior broadcast is no longer available. Programs are usually not

permanently saved in an archive.

References: Greer, R. C., Grover, R. J., & Fowler, S. G. (2007). Introduction to the library and information professions. 2nd Ed. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited.L. R. Kesinger (Personal Communication, October 30, 2015).

Jim PowersLI 801, Fall 2015