Keeping in touch with
members
St Cecilia's Guild
St Cecilia's Guild provides a free audio-book library lending
service to the visually impaired. Most of the titles on offer are
of a religious or spiritual nature, but membership of the Guild is
open to all the visually impaired, irrespective of religious belief
or affiliation. Currently, audio books are supplied on cassette,
but we are keen to introduce DAISY technology and explore
alternative means of making the books available. Unfortunately, the
software and equipment required is beyond our means at present, but
we hope to be able to make a start on "Project Daisy" in the not
too distant future. Also on the "to do" list is an online guide to
the library contents and ensuring that this web site is accessible
to everyone.
Currently there are about 545 religious titles on offer –
approximately 3300 cassettes – and 132 titles of a more
recreational nature. An enthusiastic team of volunteer readers is
helping to add new titles, while other volunteers try to keep us on
top of the admin — with mixed success.
If you would like to help in any way, or are able to donate
equipment or money (Gift-Aided if possible) to help maintain this
as a free service, please get in touch. Blindness and visual
impairment can occur at any age, but it is often the elderly and
housebound who suffer most. St Cecilia's plays a small but
important part in combating the isolation that many experience
because of their disability.
Rewinding and repairing tapes is a regular chore. This equipment
was the last word in white-hot technology in about
1970!
Rewinding a returned
cassette
