Texas Administrative Code › Title 13 - CULTURAL RESOURCES › Part 1 - TEXAS STATE LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES COMMISSION › Chapter 9 - TALKING BOOK PROGRAM › Section 9.1 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
				  shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise.
(1) Active--means a borrower
				who has requested at least one book or magazine in the preceding 12-month
				period or signed on to the Braille and Audio Reading Download service at least
				once in a six-month period.
(2)
				Agency--means the Texas State Library and Archives Commission as an agency of
				the state of Texas, including the staff, collections, archives, operations,
				programs, and property of the Texas State Library and Archives
				Commission.
(3) Applicant
				agreement--means a statement signed by each new applicant which states the
				borrower agrees to abide by the policies and procedures of the
				program.
(4) Audit--means a
				periodic inventory of equipment and/or books, as required by the National
				Library Service.
(5) Books--means
				Braille, large print, and audio publications, both physical hardcopy and
				digital download.
(6)
				Borrower--means an eligible person or institution that has registered with the
				Talking Book Program, part of the National Library Service for the Blind and
				Print Disabled's library network.
(7) Certifying authority--means a registered
				nurse, therapist, professional staff member of a hospital, doctor of medicine,
				doctor of osteopathy, ophthalmologist, optometrist, psychologist, or an
				individual representing a public or welfare agency or institution, such as an
				educator, social worker, case worker, counselor, rehabilitation teacher,
				certified reading specialist, dyslexia specialist, school psychologist,
				superintendent, or librarian.
(8)
				Digital download service--means a service provided or funded by either the
				National Library Service or the agency in which borrowers may download via the
				Internet audio and/or text computer files containing the contents of books and
				magazines.
(9) Digital talking
				book--means an audio or electronic Braille book produced by digital processes.
				Audio books are available in physical format or may be accessed through a
				digital download service. Braille books are accessed by digital download. These
				books are produced either by, or under the direction of, the National Library
				Service or the agency.
(10) Digital
				talking book machine--means a hardware device produced by the National Library
				Service and assigned to the commission for loan to borrowers. These may also
				include commercially-produced machines purchased by the commission for the
				purpose of loan to borrowers by the commission.
(11) Equipment--means any playback machine,
				accessories, and parts thereof that enable a borrower to listen to books and
				magazines.
(12) Loan period--means
				the specific period of time that an item is loaned to a borrower. The loan
				period begins when the agency assigns the book to the borrower and ends with
				the date the item is due back to the agency.
(13) Magazines--means periodical publications
				in Braille, large print, or digital format.
(14) National Library Service--means the
				National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, a division of the
				Library of Congress that operates a free national library service that produces
				audio and Braille materials and distributes them to a cooperating network of
				regional and subregional libraries, to be circulated by postage-free mail to
				blind and physically disabled borrowers.
(15) Program--means the Talking Book
				Program.
(16) Veteran--means any
				person who has been honorably discharged or honorably released from the U.S.
				Armed Forces, meaning the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Marine Corps, the
				U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Coast Guard, and all armed auxiliary services of these
				branches.