South Dakota Braillist Association Newsletter
South Dakota State Library
Braille and Talking Book Library
Winter 2003, Volume 5, Issue 5
Connie Sullivan, Newsletter Editor
Textbooks For 2003-04 school year
From the President, Connie Sullivan
It doesn't possible but another school year is coming to an end.

Each year we send a letter to educators reminding them that it is time to get textbook orders in for those students who can not read standard print.

This year we are going to try and explain in greater detail what the production cycle is for textbooks in Braille, large print, and cassette recordings.

When a book is printed it is printed beginning with page one and continuing to the end of the book. This is the same process we follow when books are produced in large print, Braille, or on cassette. There are times that we cannot complete all books from beginning to end in time for the first day of class. If this is the case we will make sure that the student has the beginning of the book for the first day of class. For this reason it is important that we know for production purposes if material in each book will be used out of sequence. We can not have chapter seventeen ready on the first day of class when we think the teacher is going to start with chapter one. We cannot guarantee materials if changes are requested at a later date. All books are put in a queue and produced on a first in first out system.


Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
--Frank Outlaw