Media Services no. 09-03
        
        Date:  October 16, 2009                            
        
        Subject: Promoting Service to Veterans
        
        To:  Network Libraries
        
                                 
        Two libraries have reached out to veterans in creative ways.  NLS thought that their
        methods might interest other network libraries.        
        
        The Arizona State Braille and Talking Book Division distributed the new digital
        talking-book players to blind veterans during a ceremony at the Old Capitol Senate
        Chambers on September 11. Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett and other
        lawmakers helped distribute the players to the guests of honor and the event was
        reported in the Arizona Capitol Times.  (A copy of the article is attached.)
        
        The New Jersey State Library for the Blind and Handicapped has issued the attached
        Veterans Rack Card to promote its services to honorably discharged veterans in its area.
        Adam Szczepaniak, director of the New Jersey State Library Talking Book and Braille
        Center, said the public relations team used stock photos and personalized them with
        information about his library.  (A copy of the card is attached.)
        
        For more information contact: 
        
        Jane Caulton
        Head, Publications and Media Section
        (202) 707-9280
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[Attachments: Print copies of the attachments were included when mailed to the network on
October 16, 2009.]