Circulated 105,960 braille and talking books to the 5,265 South Dakotans who are visually impaired or who for other reasons cannot use a standard printed book or magazine. South Dakota temporarily became the North Dakota Talking Book Machine Lending Agency during the flood in Grand Forks. A new automated library system for the Braille and Talking Book library was installed at the end of the fiscal year. New recording equipment was installed at the Federal Prison Camp in Yankton improving the quality and quantity of talking book production. At the end of the year, the collection moved back to the State Library building.
Inmates continue to circulate, ship, shelve and maintain the collection.
MULS Union List of Serials. There are 144,500 titles in MULS identifying holdings in more than 200 libraries. Workshops and Training. Examples vary from barcode labels to IAC full-text document delivery contracts. In FY97 South Dakota participated in all the services listed above.