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VOL. 4 No. 1 Spring 2004
SERVICES FOR THE Plant a Garden BLIND & PHYSICALLY @ Your Library HANDICAPPED (SBPH) State Library of Louisiana If the warmer, longer days of 701 North Fourth Street spring give you the urge to dig in Baton Rouge, LA 70802 the dirt, this bibliography may plant the seeds of a few good TELEPHONE NUMBERS gardening ideas. Included here are tips and Toll-Free: 800-543-4702 techniques for growing fruits, flowers, herbs and Local: (225) 342-4944 vegetables in small containers or farmer-sized plots. Fax: (225) 342-6817 Hapless houseplant owners, weekend rose Braille Service: 800-453-4293 gardeners and organic vegetable experts can each find something just right. Titles are available in a EMAIL variety of formats, including Web-Braille* where [email protected] indicated. Happy Horticulture! [email protected] The Able Gardener: overcoming barriers of age & HOURS physical limitations by Kathleen Yeomans. Monday-Friday (RC 40311) 8:00 a.m. — 4:30 p.m. Accessible Gardening: tips & techniques for ELIGIBILITY seniors and the disabled by Joann Woy. Any Louisiana resident who is (RC 49080) unable to read or use standard print materials as a result of a Accessible Gardening for people with temporary or permanent visual or Disabilities: a guide to methods, tools, and physical limitation is eligible to plants by Janeen Adli. (RC 52241) receive free library services. Allergy-free Gardening: the revolutionary guide to
LIBRARY SERVICES Baton Rouge, LA 70821-0131 LA Rouge, Baton healthy landscaping by Thomas Ogren.
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FREE MATTER FOR THE FOR MATTER FREE Descriptive Videos 8 Beds I Have Known: confessions of a The Jumbo Book of Gardening by Carolyn Wiese passionate amateur gardener by Karyn Morris. For grades 3-6. Gail Wilson Martha Smith. (LP 07586) (RC 52504) Woman’s Hospital Foundation Henrietta Yoder Holiday Closings City Gardener’s Handbook: from Quick & Easy Indoor Topiary: crafting In Memory of William Moore, Jr. balcony to backyard by Linda Yang. and decorating with nature by Chris Virginia and William Moore, III Good Friday (RC 32077) Jones. (RC 47861) April 9, 2004 In Memory of Mr. W. E. Sherwin Crockett’s Flower Garden by James Ultimate Container Garden: all you Memorial Day Kay and Jerry McBride Underwood Crockett. (RC 21418; need to know to create plantings for May 31, 2004 BR 05928) spring, summer, autumn, and winter In Memory of Mr. George Sibley by Stephnie Donaldson. Mattie Barras The Edible Indoor Garden: a complete (RC 54750; BR 14261*) guide to growing over 60 Betty Trail vegetables, fruits, and herbs Vegetable Growing by Fred W. Loads. Other Donations indoors by Peggy Ann Hardigree. (LP 00671) Louisiana HOTLINES is published Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Anjier (BR 05128) quarterly by the State Library of Prof. and Mrs. George Pugh Xeriscape Gardening: water Louisiana, Services for the Blind and Enabling Garden: a guide to lifelong conservation for the American Joyce Weber Physically Handicapped (SBPH), P.O. gardening by Gene Rothert. landscape by Connie Ellefson. Continued from page 5 Box 131, Baton Rouge, LA 70821-0131. (RC 43253) (RC 36457) The Return of the King by J.R.R. Subscriptions are available in large print, Essential Gardening for Teens by Your Green Scene: how to care for Tolkien. In this sequel to The Two Braille, or on audiocassette. All issues Ruth Chasek. (BR 14942) plants by Marie Porter. (LP 01387) Towers (RC 47487), Frodo and are free. Anyone may receive a free Sam bear the Ring to Mount Doom. large print subscription. To request a free The Garden Primer by Barbara * Also available as Web-Braille. The War of the Rings, fought large print subscription or to change your Damrosch. (RC 29616; BR 07795) between the forces for good and current subscription to a different format, the Dark Lord of evil, is ended. please contact the library. The Garden Problem Solver. Large Print Books for (RC 47488; BR 09749*; (RC 53450) our younger readers LP 15618) The announcement of products and services in this newsletter should not be Green Guide to Herb Gardening: How and Why Insects Visit Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand. considered an endorsement or featuring the 10 most popular herbs Flowers by Elaine Pascoe. Recounts the rise of an recommendation by SBPH. Products by Deborah Harding. (RC 50470) Explains how insects used plants for "undersized, crooked-legged" and services are listed free of charge for food. For grades K-3. (LP 13965) thoroughbred horse who in 1938 the benefit of our readers. The library How to Have a Green Thumb Without was the year's number-one an Aching Back: a new method cannot be held responsible for the How and Why Plants Eat Insects by newsmaker over Franklin for mulch gardening by Ruth Stout. reliability of products or services Elaine Pascoe. Explains how and why Roosevelt, Hitler, and Lou Gehrig. (RC 53896) mentioned. plants trap insects for food. For grades Bestseller. (RC 51968; Braille in K-3. (LP 13964) process) The Houseplant Encyclopedia by Maggie Stuckey. (RC 55960) * Also available as Web-Braille. Emma K. Schroth How and Why Seeds Travel by Elaine Editor 2 7 Thanks to Mr. and Mrs. T.E. Gibbens Pascoe. Describes some of the ways Louisiana Voices program we are able Donors various kinds of seeds are carried to find to supplement NLS titles with books that Mr. and Mrs. George Harris good places to grow. For grades K-3. have a special Louisiana flair or appeal,” Mary Helen Heroman The Mrs. W. (LP 13963) said Elizabeth Perkins, Coordinator of Carruth Jones Mae Bolling Holloway Special Services. You Are My Sunshine Foundation for the Col. And Mrs. Jeff Holman The Nature and Science of Seeds by (RCL 00157), Gus Weill’s biography of Blind and Physically Mr. Philip K. Jones Jane Burton. Describes the nature, Governor Jimmy Davis, was the first Handicapped has Mr. and Mrs. Cheney Joseph dispersal, growth, and uses of seeds. book recorded by the studio. Cross to received many donations since the last Mr. and Mrs. Donald Kirk, Jr. For grades 3-6. (LP 10459) Bear (RCL 00242), by John Maginnis, the listing in the Summer 2003 issue of Louise Taylor Kyle story of the tumultuous 1992 Hotlines. The foundation serves as a Mr. and Mrs. F. Glen LaMoyne Why Do We Have Different Seasons? gubernatorial election that pitted Buddy Friends Group for the State Library of Lillian Landrum by Isaac Asimov. Describes how the Roemer against Edwin Edwards and Louisiana Services for the Blind and Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Lee seasons affect people and other living David Duke, was the 100th book Physically Handicapped and provides things. For grades 2-4. (LP 10964) produced by Louisiana Voices. The Dr. and Mrs. C.S. McConnell funding for the purchase of descriptive program has focused on Louisiana Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. McCoy videos, summer reading program The World of Plant Life by Gerald history and politics, because these are prizes and volunteer recognition Mary Alois Meyer Legg. Introduces plant life along with unique aspects of Louisiana culture. events. Many of the recent donations Jerry Lynn Mills specialized habitats including deserts, Additionally, volunteer readers have were made in memory of Dr. J. P. Mrs. Grace Moore mountains, and under water. For grades turned out fiction by Louisiana authors, Griffon, a long-time Trustee of the Mr. and Mrs. Jeffery Mouk 2-4. (LP 14873) children’s books, cookbooks, sports Jones Foundation, who died in Robert and Mildred Odom books, travel guides, and more. The September 2003. The following Alvin Ourso, Jr. Louisiana Voices studio has committed to the project of individuals and institutions have made Linda Pace Celebrates producing recorded cassettes for all the donations to the foundation: books included in the annual Louisiana Mr. and Mrs. Martin Parker 100th Recording! Frances Peabody Young Reader’s Choice Award contest. ExxonMobil Matching Gifts Program Pat Peabody “Recording these titles increases the Volunteer Louisiana Voices, the number of high quality books available to Mr. and Mrs. Chad Phillips Tom Musser volunteer audiobook younger readers and allows blind, Mrs. Louise Prosser recording program at the State Library of handicapped, and reading disabled kids Prof. And Mrs. George Pugh In Memory of Dr. J. P. Griffon Louisiana, recently recorded its 100th to participate in the statewide annual Mr. and Mrs. H.M. Rayne book since the program began nearly 3 Jane Abercrombie balloting for the award,” said Emma Alice Sims years ago. Volunteer narrators, Ann and Sidney Arbour Schroth, Youth Services Librarian. Spirit Builders of St. Paul United producers, and reviewers work with Dr. and Mrs. Charles Black Issues of Louisiana Hotlines are Methodist Church of studio staff to turn unique Louisiana recorded in the Louisiana Voices studio Mr. and Mrs. J. Terrell Brown Monroe, LA books into recorded cassettes that are and studio staff are working on a catalog Patricia G. Butler St. Paul United Methodist Church available for loan to all the patrons of of Louisiana Voices titles so that SBPH Stanan and Henry Capdeboseq of Monroe, LA SBPH. “The Louisiana Voices program readers can have better access to these Dr. Murry Decoteau Mr. and Mrs. Paul Thompson is extremely successful, and that books. This catalog will be produced in Mr. and Mrs. David Derossett Mr. and Mrs. James Toups, Jr. success is due to the energy and both large print and on audiocassette and Jean Pugh DeTarnowsky Mrs. Rae W. Vandaworker commitment of our volunteers,” notes distributed to all interested readers. Look Christy Reeves, the program manager. Mrs. Barbara Dunn Mrs. Mildred Vanderpool for an announcement about the “The NLS collection of recorded Mr. and Mrs. C.M. Ethridge Mr. and Mrs. Robert Watts Louisiana Voices catalog in the next Mr. and Mrs. Wendel Foushee cassettes is a fine one, but with the issue of Louisiana Hotlines. 6 3 We’re Buggy And the Oscar Goes duties is offset by working in the NOW OPEN! About Books! to.... artist's studio. Some descriptions Magnifiers and More of sex. Bestseller. (RC 50258; The Joe W. and Dorothy BR 13360*; LP 11500) The beginning of a new year Dorsett Brown The buzz is that the always marks off the movie Foundation Visual Aids House of Sand and Fog by Andre theme for the Summer Reading Program awards season. But did you Store Dubus. Because of a tax-office 2004 is “Buggy About Books.” Kids and know that many of these films you see at error, recovering addict Kathy teens registered with SBPH will be the cinema are also adapted from The Lighthouse for the Lazaro is evicted from the swarming around the library this summer, books? Here are a few titles available in Blind in New Orleans has recently bungalow she inherited from her just itching to read some books. Watch our collection that has garnered some opened Magnifiers and More, a visual father. The house is bought by an out or the reading bug might bite you! critical acclaim over the past few months. aids store, aimed at helping customers Iranian looking for the American maximize their mobility and dream. Correcting this mistake This year’s eight week summer reading Big Fish by Daniel Wallace. William independence. They also sell items leads to a legal tussle with dire program will run from June 21 to August Bloom's father is dying, and William manufactured at the Lighthouse by results. Some descriptions of sex, 9, 2004. There will be lots of cool prizes has a great need to understand this people who are visually impaired or some violence, and some strong and fun books to read! Look for an man who was never at home. As blind. language. Bestseller. invitation in the mail soon. For more they spend time together, the old (RC 50033; LP 13150) information call the children’s and teen man continues his habit of telling At Magnifiers and More, you can find service’s librarian at: jokes, leaving William with little magnifiers, lighting, talking clocks and Master and Commander by Patrick knowledge of who his father really watches, closed circuit TVs, canes, O’Brian. This historical sea tale 1-800-543-4702 is. (BR 13183*; LP 12002) kitchen utensils, screen magnification chronicles the adventures of Jack software, glare-reducing glasses, Aubrey of the Royal Navy, master or Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier. A signature guides, tactile markers, and and commander of the brig Sophia, wounded Confederate soldier much more. They also have books and as he and his crew battle the email leaves the war on an arduous trek other literature to inform the public French and Spanish in the [email protected] to his mountain home and the about vision problems. Mediterranean during the woman he aims to marry. Napoleonic wars. “Buggy About Books” is made possible Meanwhile, his intended struggles Magnifiers and More is located at (RC 33485; BR 08654*) through a grant from the Louisiana to work her deceased father's The Lighthouse for the Blind in New Library Foundation and from the ongoing hardscrabble farm. Strong language Orleans Mystic River by Dennis LeHane. Sean, charitable support of the Mrs. W. Carruth and violence. Bestseller. 123 State Street Jimmy, and Dave were eleven Jones Foundation for the Blind and (RC 44762; LP 09375) New Orleans, LA 70118 when Dave was abducted from a Physically Handicapped. Boston slum. Twenty-five years Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Their hours of operation are 10 a.m. to later, ex-con Jimmy's daughter is BEE A READER THIS SUMMER! Chevalier. A fictional account of how 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 murdered and Dave becomes a the seventeenth-century artist a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday. suspect. Sean, now a homicide Vermeer came to paint a portrait of detective, is assigned to the case. a young woman wearing a pearl You can reach them Strong language, some explicit earring. When sixteen-year-old by phone number descriptions of sex, and some Griet, a Protestant, becomes a (504) 891-7008 violence. (RC 51758) maid in Vermeer's Catholic or email