Illinois Administrative Code › Title 23 - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL RESOURCES › Part 3035 - ILLINOIS STATE LIBRARY GRANT PROGRAMS › Subpart F - TALKING BOOK AND BRAILLE SERVICE (TBBS) › Section 3035.610 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
"Accessible Electronic Information Service" means news and
				  other timely information (including newspapers) provided to eligible patrons
				  from multi-state service centers or qualified providers as designated by the
				  Director, using high-speed computers, telecommunication and attendant
				  technologies for acquisition of contents and rapid distribution.
"Advisory and Outreach Center" or "AOC" means a provider of
				  reader-advisory, outreach and/or machine lending activities. AOC also provides
				  walk-in services for patrons who use digital books that the AOC downloads from
				  NLS.
"Competent Authority" means, in cases of blindness, visual
				  disability or physical limitations, physicians licensed to practice medicine in
				  the State of Illinois or comparable licensing authority; doctors of osteopathy;
				  ophthalmologists; optometrists; registered nurses; physical therapists; and
				  professional staff of hospitals, institutions and public and welfare agencies,
				  such as social workers, case workers, counselors, rehabilitation teachers, and
				  school superintendents. In the absence of any of these, certification of
				  eligibility may be made by professional librarians or any person whose
				  competence under specific circumstances is acceptable to the Library of
				  Congress. In the case of reading disability from organic dysfunction,
				  "competent authority" means physicians licensed to practice medicine by the
				  State of Illinois or comparable licensing authority who may consult with
				  colleagues in associated disciplines.
"Director" means the State Librarian.
"Eligible Patron" means a blind person whose visual acuity,
				  as determined by competent authority, is 20/200 or less in the better eye with
				  correcting lenses, or whose widest diameter of visual field subtends an angular
				  distance no greater than 20 degrees. Other eligible print-disabled persons
				  include persons whose visual disability, with correction and regardless of
				  optical measurement, is certified by competent authority as preventing the
				  reading of standard printed material; persons certified by competent authority
				  as unable to read or unable to use standard printed material as a result of
				  physical limitations; and persons certified by competent authority as having a
				  reading disability resulting from organic dysfunction and of sufficient
				  severity to prevent their reading printed material in a normal manner. Senior
				  citizens are eligible for this program.
"Free Matter" means postage free mailing of specified
				  materials for the network of cooperating libraries and for eligible patrons.
				  The cost for Free Matter is provided directly to the United States Postal
				  Service by the Congress of the United States through the USPS budget. Examples
				  of free material are books and magazines on tape, large-print material, Braille
				  books and magazines, descriptive video, old-time radio shows, playback machines
				  and other sound enhancement accessories.
"Illinois Radio Information Services" or "IRIS" means the
				  network that broadcasts accessible electronic information services on a daily
				  basis on a special radio called a sideband receiver. The receivers are
				  distributed at no cost to eligible patrons. Local newspapers are read and
				  usually include pieces of news that may not generally be heard on the
				  television news broadcasts. A variety of topics are available, including
				  comics, grocery ads and obituaries. IRIS also produces public affairs programs
				  and listener call-in shows.
"Machine Sub-lending Agency" or "MSLA" means an entity that
				  engages in lending federally owned and supplied equipment. An MSLA offers
				  personal attention to readers' equipment needs, such as specially designed
				  record players, cassette players and accessories.
"National Library Service for the Blind and Physically
				  Handicapped" or "NLS" means a part of the Library of Congress. NLS produces
				  books and magazines, in recorded and Braille formats, playback equipment for
				  listening to the books, an international online catalog of available books, and
				  catalogs of available books in accessible formats. These materials are
				  distributed to a network of cooperating libraries throughout the United States
				  that serve eligible patrons on a temporary or permanent basis.
"Qualified Provider" means any entity that can provide high
				  quality and timely information that is accessible through an electronic
				  information service.
"Regional Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped"
				  or "LBPH" means the Talking Book and Braille Service (TBBS) for blind and
				  physically disabled individuals that is administered by the Illinois State
				  Library as designated by NLS.
"Talking Book Centers" or "TBCs" means facilities in Illinois
				  designated by the Director of the Illinois State Library that are
				  geographically dispersed throughout the State that provide direct library
				  service to eligible patrons delivered primarily through the free matter for the
				  blind and physically handicapped postage subsidy as defined in Section E040 of
				  the Domestic Mail Manual published in The Postal Bulletin (PB 22081, July 23,
				  2003), which can be ordered from the United States Postal Service, 475 L'Enfant
				  Plaza, SW, Washington DC 20260-5540.