Open Audiobooks Project
August 15th, 2004Open Audiobooks Project - From the purpose:
“The goal of the Open Audiobooks Project is for volunteers to work together to create audio books of public domain texts for people to freely download, distribute, and modify. While the results will probably not be a match for books read by professional readers, we hope they will nonetheless be enjoyable and useful.”
I’ve been formulizing a basic framework for practical uses of librarians who work in groups and this project is a perfect example. Librarians can collaborate in providing assistance here in numerous ways, whether it means just lending your voice, or working within your library to provide a full public domain piece (with all library staff volunteering) in audio to the project. Librarians have been working together for a very long time (which is one of the reasons I became a librarian) and we need to continue to do so, online and off. Think of this project as document delivery for the 21st century. And if you want to keep up with the Open Audiobooks Project, subscribe to their RSS Feed. (link via del.icio.us)