[Studiotalk] Number of Studios / titles

Thu Aug 15 15:55:03 CDT 2019

Thanks, Josh.

Deborah

Deborah Stroup
Studio/Volunteer Services Manager
Wolfner Talking Book and Braille Library
600 W. Main
Jefferson City, MO  65102
573-522-2766
deborah.stroup at sos.mo.gov<mailto:deborah.stroup at sos.mo.gov>

From: studiotalk <studiotalk-bounces at islemail.org> On Behalf Of Easter, Josh
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I am late responding as well,

We currently have a total of 4 (soon 5) recording studio locations in the State of South Dakota and about 17 mostly active volunteers currently.

-          We have one recording studio in the SD Braille and Talking Book Library itself in Pierre, SD where I work full time. We are only open M-F 8-5pm. We currently have 4 volunteers that don't necessarily come in all the time and an occasional special project or summer volunteer as well.

-          We have had one recording studio in Sioux Falls, SD for almost 7 years housed in an office space provided to us by the Siouxland Libraries Main Branch. They are open M-Th 9-9, Fri 9-6, Sat 9-5, Sun 1-5. The volunteers there also come in when they are able to. I have one pretty regular narrator who is pretty consistent. Others that come in the summer to record. So there are around 8 volunteers. This was started after we changed from reel-to-reel recording to digital recording on a computer. Sioux Falls is the largest city in South Dakota.

-          We just added a recording studio near the end of July in Vermillion, SD in the basement of the public library there. Constructed a vocal booth recording booth and trained 1 volunteer that first trip, and returned last week and trained 3 more volunteers. They are open M-Th 8-9, Fri 8-6, Sat 10-5, Sun 1-5.

-          We will soon be adding a 5th recording studio in an office space in the Rapid City Public Library which is the second largest city in South Dakota.

-          We also have 3 recording studio booths in the Federal Prison Camp in Yankton, SD. (BTW we also have a talking book machine repair site there so if you have any DTBM's in need of repair ask me and I'll give you the information to send your machines our way to repair and clean and send back to you.) The recording studios there have been there for decades back in the reel-to-reel days. The Federal Prison inmates can apply to work in the recording studios as their job. We currently are back to recruiting after several were released. We currently just have 1 gentleman there who after his day job will volunteer his time to record our South Dakota magazines such as Dakota Country, Dakota Farmer, and SD Conservation Digest. I've taken to asking volunteers in Pierre to record South Dakota Magazine and Bishop's Bulletin to help increase timeliness.

For the out of town recording studios the public libraries have added a calendar in their study/conference room reservation system so that volunteers can call the library to reserve time so they aren't taking up the same time. The great thing about the out of Pierre recording studios and partnerships with public libraries is they have longer hours, know the importance of reading and libraries, helps bring awareness to those areas of the state, Pierre where our library is based is a state capital of around 14,000 and a small community of 20,000 with two county area in the isolated center of the state. The State Library is only open during the day so that limits our volunteer pool. Pierre has a great volunteer base of retired people but also many demands on volunteers so they are often involved many places.

We don't have a live monitor working with the volunteer narrators, they are responsible for operating the computer and program themselves and they also go back and review their work themselves. If I have a separate reviewer available they would review the book after recording. I do have one couple where the husband runs the computer and his wife does the narrating. He is also a patron but is able to run the program and computer savvy enough since he was a heavy computer user before retirement and needing our services.

We use APH's Studio Recorder as a simple easy to use recording program for the volunteers.
I'm experimenting with one dedicated volunteer who is wanting to record at home who purchased a Blue Yeti microphone to use with his laptop. I had him download the free program Audacity and we found some challenging workarounds for some of the easier functions in APH Studio Recorder.

We do use Hindenburg ABC NLS edition for post recording processing in Pierre to create our Digital Talking Books and Magazines.
Our circulation technician does the majority of the post processing DTB and magazine creation and I occasionally do it as well. I coordinate the recording studios and volunteers at our various locations occasionally visiting to follow up and touch base with current volunteers and train new volunteers. Of course other responsibilities such as being in charge of all talking book equipment among other things definitely makes it a challenge to juggle everything as we all know since we wear many hats in our libraries.

Since we transitioned to digital recording at end of 2011 and added our first locally recorded DTB into the catalog in 2012 we have added 270 (25 so far this year) book titles to the KLAS catalog and we have 17 additional completed book recordings that need to be processed and added to the catalog.
A lot of these books are short children's books that we try to have available to students in the state in accessible audio format so they can participate and vote along with student peers in schools. https://www.sdlibraryassociation.org/page/7<https://protect2.fireeye.com/url?k=e408ed8a-b849893d-e40a2140-002590f4ce32-a454a4a460cb83f0&q=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sdlibraryassociation.org%2Fpage%2F7> https://library.sd.gov/LIB/CYS/index.aspx We also record mainly South Dakota history, South Dakota authors, or other state and regional interest book titles.

Let me know if you have anymore questions. I'm enjoying hearing what other libraries do.

Thanks!
Josh Easter
Equipment and Audio Production Manager
South Dakota Braille & Talking Book Library
SD State Library, 800 Governors Drive, Pierre, SD 57501
Phone: 605.773.5082 / 1.800.423.6665 (SD only)  Fax: 605.773.6962
Josh.Easter at state.sd.us<mailto:Josh.Easter at state.sd.us>     http://library.sd.gov<http://library.sd.gov/>
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Thank you.

Deborah

Deborah Stroup
Studio/Volunteer Services Manager
Wolfner Talking Book and Braille Library
600 W. Main
Jefferson City, MO  65102
573-522-2766
deborah.stroup at sos.mo.gov<mailto:deborah.stroup at sos.mo.gov>

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Hi all,

I was out last week for a trip to the mountains so I missed responding to this.    In answer to the question about studios and titles,  Indiana Voices has one working studio with 14 volunteer narrators weekly and 8 monitors who cover about half of our 1 hour sessions.  I cover the monitoring for the other half as well as all editing, mark up, cartridge copying and uploading to BARD.  We completed 29 titles last year and we have gotten 33 done so far this year.  That doesn't include the older titles that I have be adapting to get into BARD.

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>

Thanks, Sue.

Thanks,
Deborah

Deborah Stroup
Studio/Volunteer Services Manager
Wolfner Talking Book and Braille Library
600 W. Main
Jefferson City, MO  65102
573-522-2766
deborah.stroup at sos.mo.gov<mailto:deborah.stroup at sos.mo.gov>

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We have one booth.  Last year 26 books and 43 magazines were narrated.  We have 6 North Dakota magazines available for our patrons.  We need to recruit a few more male readers.

Sue

Susan B. Hammer-Schneider
Talking Book Library Manager
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