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Regional Chair Meeting November 19, 2014 - 2:30 p.m EDT, 1:30 CDT, 12:30 MDT, 11:30 PDT. NLS staff present: Paula Bahmani, Meredith Beckhardt, Vickie Collins, Steve Prine, Richard Smith Chairs: Sharon Ruda (Midlands), Adam Szczepaniak (Northern), Barbara Penegor in for Craig Hayward (Southern), Debbi MacLeod (Western) Recorded by: Sharon Ruda From NLS:
Smith suggested that librarians post additional questions to LBPH before the next weeks call. Federal government is still under continuing resolution. Thanks to the new reporting system, all of the network libraries sent in the statistics in a timely fashion so information will be up on the web site in a couple of months (instead of the years delay in the past).
Conference chairs question and issues: North Question:
Updates on blank cartridges – What is the schedule? Distribution has been pushed back to April, working on final distribution numbers to libraries. Update on Android – Is there a schedule yet? By the end of December, beta testing will begin with non- NLS individuals.
South Question:
Recall numbers – Is there a firm number for recall yet? It hasn’t been finalized but will be less than original number. Non-NLS braille books XESS – Can a school ship books to the same address as NLS books? It should be a local decision as to where to send the books. NLS will double check but they believe only NLS books can be sent through the braille XESS process . WebReads transition – Is there a schedule of libraries to be followed in the transition process? Libraries will be involved per a list from NLS. Those libraries will be asked to complete transition by February.
West Question:
What’s status of DTBM battery testers for repair groups and technicians? John Brown from engineering will answer next week at the monthly call. What’s status of national outreach campaign? Jane said each region will report on it for the committee. She will talk about it at the next meeting.
Midlands Question:
What is the status of delivery of currency reader - NLS hopes to start shipping currency readers in December. About 11,000 NLS patrons have them on order. MSC will send them out. PIMMS record will show when they have been sent to the patrons. Libraries can check for patron if unit not received, will know if there is a mailing problem and resend. Readers may get caught up in the holiday mail glut.