[Studiotalk] Long titles - any suggestions

[Mugford, John, DCA]

               Are you referring to the 560 page Lew Wallace, Militant Romantic by Robert Eustis Morsberger, published in 1980? During his time as governor of the New Mexico Territory from 1878 to 1881, Wallace negotiated with Billy the Kid and completed the manuscript for Ben Hur, before repositioning to Constantinople in part as a reward from President Garfield for the inspiration of Ben Hur.

Wallace is noted for having written the following to his wife regarding his successor and imminent New Mexico departure: ``Of course, he will do just as I did, have the same ideas, make the same attempts, and with the same heartiness of effort, soon cool in zeal, then finally say, `All right, let her drift'. All calculations based on our experiences elsewhere fail in New Mexico.''

John Mugford
Regional Librarian
New Mexico Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped

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Unfortunately,  I have no volunteers who read more than once a week so that is not an option.  The book I have in mind is an extensive biography of Lew Wallace, Civil War General and author of Ben Hur.

Linden Coffman
Director
Indiana Voices
Indiana State Library
Talking Book & Braille Library
315 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202
317-232-3683
E-mail: lcoffman at library.in.gov

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               Generally, subject matter, rather than length has proven more dissuasive concerning project acceptance in my experience.

               Having said that, I am aware that New Mexico's longest project of late has been about 20 hours in length (about 450 pages) and met with some volunteer despair in the reviewing portion. That project took about one year, four months to complete.

               How lengthy of a project are you considering? Matching subject matter to volunteer interests (preferably a volunteer, who regularly reads more than once a week) may present a solution.

John Mugford
Regional Librarian
New Mexico Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped

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Hi all,

This morning's question involves long titles and how you handle them?  Do any of you have trouble when it comes to selecting long titles and then finding a volunteer to take one on?  Do you have any suggestions as to how to present a title to a volunteer narrator when you know they may be in the book for a long time?  I have at least one title that I have which could take as long as two years to complete that I would like to do, but I often have trouble getting people to commit to a book for that length of time.  Anybody else run into this problem?

Linden Coffman
Director
Indiana Voices
Indiana State Library
Talking Book & Braille Library
315 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202
317-232-3683
E-mail: lcoffman at library.in.gov<mailto:lcoffman at library.in.gov>

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