13. LIBRARY SERVICES
13.1 BookShare Download
13.1.1 Executing BookShare Download
13.1.2 The main BookShare download Dialog
13.1.3 Searching for Books
13.1.4 Searching for periodicals
13.1.5 Searching History
13.1.6 Option Settings
13.2 Online DAISY
13.3 NLS BARD Download
13.3.1 What is NLS BARD?
13.3.2 Executing NLS Download
13.3.3 The main NLS download Dialog
13.3.4 Searching for Books
13.3.5 Option Settings

13. Library Services

13.1 BookShare Download
The "BookShare Download" program provides direct search and download access to the repository of books and periodicals available from www.bookshare.org.
BookShare is a repository of books and periodicals in accessible formats, made available through the work of volunteers who scan and proofread books, federal grants funding the purchasing and digitizing of material, and contributions from book publishers of electronic versions of their texts.
BookShare titles are available in various formats including DAISY, BRF, NIMAC, and audio. The U2 supports access to the DAISY and BRF formats via "BookShare Download". 
To become a BookShare member, you must complete BookShare's application process, including providing proof of reading disability, and pay the associated yearly membership fees. Payment can be monitary, or users can earn credit toward their membership fees by scanning or proofreading material for the collection. While the majority of the BookShare titles require you to have a membership to access them, several thousand titles in the collection are public domain works, and thus, can be accessed by anyone, regardless of whether you have a bookShare membership.
For more information about BookShare, the application process, or the collection, please visit www.bookshare.org.

13.1.1 Executing BookShare Download
To open the "BookShare Download" program, from the Main Menu, use "Space-4" to navigate to "extras" and press "Enter". In the "Extras" menu, use "Space-4" to navigate to "BookShare Download" and press "Enter". You can launch "BookShare Download" from anywhere on the unit by pressing "F1-K". 
The BookShare Download program makes extensive use of dialog boxes. Use "Space-4-5" and "Space-1-2" or "F3" and "Space-F3" to Tab and Shift-Tab among controls in a dialog. For the purrposes of these instructions, we will generally just refer to "Tab".  
Use "Space-1" and "Space-4" or the Up and Down scroll keys to navigate menus, settings or file lists. Press "Enter" to execute an item.
When you open "BookShare Download", you are placed in the "login Settings" dialog in which you can enter your BookShare account information. The "login Settings' dialog contains the following items: "Login ID" computer edit box, "Login password" computer edit box, "anonymous Mode" checkbox, "Save" button, and "Cancel" button.
Enter your BookShare user account ID and password in to the computer edit boxes. To save the information, press "Enter" or Tab to the "Save" button and press "Enter". If you do not have a BookShare account, you can still access the public domain material in "anonymous Mode". To connect to "BookShare Download" using "Anonymous Mode", leave the computer edit boxes for ID and password blank, and press "Space" on the "Anonymous Mode" check box. Press "Enter" to save the setting.  
If you choose to log in using "Anonymous Mode" you are warned that there will be download restrictions when using Anonymous Mode. When you have saved your login information, you are placed in the main "BookShare Download" dialog on the "Select Search Mode" combo box.

13.1.2 The main BookShare download Dialog
The "BookShare Download" dialog contains 7 items:
1) "Select Search Mode" combo box: you can choose to search "Books", "periodicals", or your download "History". Use "Space" to change the value of the setting.
2) "Select Search Method" combo box: (only appears when "Books" is chosen from the "Select search Mode" combo box. You can choose to search BookShare's book collection by word (Title, Author, or ISBN), by category or to search the full text of the materials in the collection. Use "Space" to change the value of the setting.
3) Search term Edit box: If you have chosen to search by periodical, you are asked to enter the "periodical ID". If you have chosen to search the book collection for a title, author, or ISBN, the edit box asks for "title, Author, or ISBN". If you have chosen to do a full text search, you are asked to "Enter text".
4) "Search" button: Press "Enter" on this button to initiate a search.
5) "Login Settings" dialog" Opens the same dialog as described above, allows you to change your BookShare account information or switch to "Anonymous mode". You can also open this dialog using "Enter-S". 
6) "Options" button" Opens the "Options" dialog where you can set default download type, download location, and whether the U2 automatically unpacks BookShare books. You can also open this dialog using "Enter-O". 
7) "Exit" button: Exits the "BookShare Download" program. You can also press "Space-Z". 

13.1.3 Searching for Books
When you choose "Books" from the "Select Search Mode" combo box described above, the next item in the dialog is "Select Search Method". Press "Space" to choose between "Search word", "Category search" and "Search full text".  
When you choose to "Search word", the next item in the dialog is an edit box in to which you should enter a keyword for which you want title, author, or ISBN results. When you have entered the word you want to search, press "Enter" or Tab to the "Search" button, and press "Enter".
If you choose "Category Search", the next item in the dialog is a list box containing the 36 available categories.  SELECT a category, and press "Enter" to initiate the search, 
When you choose "Search full text", you are presented with an edit box just like when choosing "Search Word", but, instead of entering author, title, or ISBN information, you should enter a term by which you want to search the full text of the books in the collection. 
The U2 announces, "searching..." and progress beeps are heard as the unit searches the BookShare library for items that match your search terms or chosen category. When the search is complete, you are placed in a list of results that match your search. Navigate the list using "Space-1" and "Space-4". 
The "BookShare Download" dialog now contains 3 additional items: the "Search Results" listbox you are now in, a "Detail information" button", and a "Download" button. If the results list contains more than 250 items, an additional button, "Next list", appears after the results list in the tab order, also accessed using "Enter-N". 
If you press "Enter on the "Detail information" button, or press its shortcut, "Enter-I", you are placed in a dialog providing more information about the book. The "Detail Information" dialog contains a list box of the details for the book and a "Close" button. The "Details" list box contains the following items:
1) "Title" shows the complete title of the book.
2) "author" lists the author or authors of the work.
3) "ISBN" lists the International Standard Book Number.
4) "Brief Synopsis" gives a short or partial synopsis of the book.
5) "Complete synopsis" provides a more detailed overview of the work.
6) "Category" lists the category the book is logged under in the BookShare library.
7) "Language" lists the language in which the book is printed.
8) "Publisher" lists the publisher of the book.
9) "publish date" lists the copyright date of the work.
10) "Quality" refers to the quality of the scanned material.
11) "free" shows whether the book is part of the free, public domain collection, or requires a membership to download (indicated by "not free").

You can download a book in the "search Results" list either by pressing "Enter" on the book title in the list, or by navigating to the "Download" button and pressing "Enter". If you are logged in in "anonymous Mode" and pres "Enter" if the book is not part of the public domain collection, the Braille Sense announces and displays, "This content is not free" and returns you to the "Search Results" list.

13.1.4 Searching for periodicals
If you select "periodicals" from the "select search Mode" combo box, the next item in the dialog is an edit box in to which you can enter a "periodical ID". Each periodical in the BookShare collection contains a numerical ID you can use to quickly access it. Enter the ID in the edit box, and press "Enter" to initiate the periodical search, or tab to the "Search" button and press "enter". When the search is complete, a list of available issues of that periodical is displayed.
If you do not know the ID of the periodical you wish to find, simply leave the edit box blank and press "Enter". If you have typed nothing in to the edit box, the entire list of available periodicals is displayed in alphabetical order.  Press "Enter" on your desired periodical, and the list of available issues for that periodical is displayed.
The issues list also contains a "detail Information" button for each item. The "Detail information" for periodical issues contains the following information:
1) "Title": the title of the periodical issue.
2) "Edition": The edition date of the periodical issue.
3) "Revision": the number of the revision of the online version of the periodical posted to Bookshare.
4) "Revision time": the time the most current revision was posted to BookShare. (Useful if a revision contains errors in DAISY structure or text, as you can determine whether you have downloaded the most recent version)
5) "Category": the type of periodical (newspaper, magazine, etc).
As with a book, to download an issue of a periodical in the list, simply press "Enter" on it, or Tab to the "Download" button, and press "Enter".

13.1.5 Searching History
To search your download history, choose "History" from the "Search Mode" combo box, Tab to the "Search" button, and press "Enter". You are presented with a book list just like the one that appears when you receive results in the "Books" search mode. The book list contains the list of books you've downloaded in the last month from any device you have connected to BookShare. As with the results from the "Books" search, you can get detailed information for a book and download it. 

13.1.6 Option Settings
To open the "Options" dialog, Tab to the "Options" button and press "Enter", or press "Enter-O" from anywhere in "BookShare Download". The "Options" dialog contains: the "Option Settings" list, "Default Download" button, a "Save" button and a "Cancel" button. 
The option Settings list contains 2 items: "Default Download Type" and "Auto unzip" on/off. Press "Space" to change the value of each setting. There are 3 options for the default download type: "DAISY", "BRF", and "Prompt". If this option is set to "DAISY" or "BRF", whenever you initiate the downloading of a book or periodical, that version is automatically downloaded. If you set this option to "Prompt", each time you initiate a download, you are prompted for the download type.
The "Auto unzip" on/off option lets you choose whether you want the U2 to automatically unpack books or periodicals when they are downloaded. If this is set to "on", when the download completes, the U2 announces, "unzipping bookname...." And automatically unpacks the contents and places it in a folder with the same name as the zip file. If you set this to "Off", you are returned to the main dialog immediately after downloading, and you must extract the zip file manually from the "File Manager".
The "Default Download folder" button opens a File Manager dialog in which you can choose the default download location for your BookShare material. Use normal file/folder navigation commands to select a folder, and press "Space" to select it. Press "Enter" to save the location and return to the "Options" dialog. By default, the download folder is set to "flashdisk/downloads".
When you have chosen your desired settings, press "Enter" to save them, or Tab to the "Save" button, and press "Enter". To exit the "Options" dialog without saving your settings, press "Enter" on the "Cancel" button, or press "Space-Z". 


13.2 Online DAISY
The Online DAISY program allows patrons of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind and Vision Australia libraries to access and download DAISY books available through their online bookshelf. 
* Note: you cannot search for books using this program as this capability is only available when accessing the libraries via their websites. However, this program allows you to access and interact with your electronic bookshelf and download and return books.
To execute the Online DAISY program, Open the "Extras" menu, navigate to "Online DAISY" and press "Enter".  
When you execute the Online DAISY program for the first time, you are asked for your login information. Use "Space-1" and "Space-4" to navigate to the server you wish to log in to. Once done, Tab to the iD field and enter it in computer Braille. If accessing the CNIB library, type "CNIB_" followed by your user number in the ID field. For Vision Australia, type just your user ID number. Tab to the "Password" field and type it in computer Braille. Press "Space" to toggle the check boxes for "Remember Me", and "Save password". When you have chosen your login settings, Tab to "Login" and press "Enter".
You are presented with a combo box with 3 items: "Expired", "New", and "Issued". Press "Tab (F3 or Space-4-5)" to access the list in your desired category. You can navigate the book list using "Space-1" and "Space-4".
To download a book, navigate to it and press "Enter". The unit announces "Download start" and shows progress indicators to let you know the progress of the download process. When the book is finished downloading, you may play it using the DAISY Player. 
Books downloaded using the Online DAISY program are available in the "Online DAISY" folder from the "Open DAISY" dialog of the DAISY Player. For reasons of copy protection, these books are only visible from the DAISY Player and cannot be accessed from the File Manager.
Vision Australia users can also download BRF books. When a BRF book is downloaded, you have the option of opening it in the Word Processor, from which you can copy the text to another document, or save it to a different location where it can be more easily accessed.
When you wish to return a book, navigate to it in the list, and press "Enter-R" This returns the book to the virtual library so that others can be issued to you.

13.3 NLS BARD Download

The "NLS Download" program provides direct search and download access to the collection of books and magazines available from the NLS Braille and Audio Reading Download service (BARD): www.nlsbard.loc.gov.

13.3.1 What is NLS BARD?
The Braille and Audio Reading Download service is available to patrons of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, a division of the Library of Congress in the United States. BARD allows you to search for and download books in digital talking book format as well as formatted Braille.
If you are already an active member of NLS, you may sign up for BARD on the website. If your membership has become inactive, or you have not signed up for NLS service, you may  contact your regional library in the US to facilitate this process. 
If you are a member of BARD, but have not authorized your Braille Sense to play NLS content, please log in to your BARD account, visit the "Update Account Settings" page, and click the "Add a Purchased Player" link.
For more information about NLS BARD, the application process, or the collection, please visit www.nlsbard.loc.gov.

13.3.2 Executing NLS Download
To open the "NLS Download" program, from the Main Menu, use "Space-4" to navigate to "Library Services" and press "Enter" or press l to jump to and open the "Library Services" menu. In the "Library Services" menu, use "Space-4" to navigate to "NLS Download" and press "Enter", or press N to jump to and open "NLS Download" directly. 
You can launch "NLS Download" from anywhere on the unit by pressing "F3-O" (dots-1-3)".
When you first open "NLS Download", you are placed in the "login Settings" dialog in which you can enter your NLS account information. Press "Tab (F3 or Space-4-5)" and "Shift-tab (Space-F3 or Space-1-2)" to move among the items in the "Login Settings" dialog. 
The "login Settings' dialog contains the following items: "Login ID" computer edit box, "Login password" computer edit box, check boxes for "Save ID", "Save Password" and "Auto login", a "Save" button, and "Cancel" button.
Enter your NLS user account ID and password in to the computer edit boxes. If you want the program to remember your login information and/or auto login each time you open it, check the appropriate check boxes. To save the information, press "Enter" or Tab to the "Save" button and press "Enter".   
When you have saved your login information, you are placed in the main "NLS Download" dialog on the "Select File Format" combo box.

13.3.3 The main NLS download Dialog
The "NLS Download" dialog contains 6 items:
1. "Select File Format" combo box: Choose to search Braille material, Audio books, or All.
2. "Select Search Mode" combo box: you can choose to search by "Word" or "List". Use "Space" to change the value of the setting.
3. Search term Edit box: If you have chosen to search by word, enter the title or author in the edit box. If you have chosen to search by list, you are presented with a combo box of the available lists. 
4.  "Search" button: Press "Enter" on this button to initiate a search.
5. "Login Settings" dialog" Opens the same dialog as described above, allows you to change your NLS account information. You can open this dialog using "Enter-L".
6. "Options" button" Opens the "Options" dialog where you can set download location, and whether the Braille Sense U2 automatically unpacks NLS books. You can also open this dialog using "Enter-O. 
Press "Tab (F3) or "Shift-tab (Space-F3) to move among the items in the dialog.

13.3.4 Searching for Books
When you choose "Word" from the "Select Search Mode" combo box described above, the next item in the dialog is an edit box in to which you should enter a keyword for which you want results. When you have entered the word you want to search, press "Enter" or Tab to the "Search" button, and press "Enter".
If you choose "List", the next item in the dialog is a list box containing the available lists you can search. You can search the most recent additions to the collection, your own wish list, etc. Press "Space-1" or "Space-4" to navigate the category list. Press "Enter" to initiate the search, or Tab to the "Search" button and press "Enter".
The Braille Sense U2 announces, "searching..." and progress beeps are heard as the unit searches the NLS library for items that match your search terms or chosen category. When the search is complete, you are placed in a list of results that match your search. Navigate the list using "Space-1" and "Space-4". 
The "NLS Download" dialog now contains 4 additional items: the "Search Results" listbox you are now in, a "Detail information" button", an "Add to Wish List" button, and a "Download" button. If the results list contains more than 250 items, an additional button, "Next list", appears after the results list in the tab order, also accessed by pressing "Enter-N". 
If you press "Enter on the "Detail information" button, or press its shortcut key, "Enter-I", you are placed in a dialog providing more information about the book.
The "Detail Information" dialog contains the following items:
1. A list box containing, "title", "Author", "Annotation", "Narrator" (Audio only), "File Size" and "File Format". 
2. "close" button: closes the "Detail information" dialog, and returns you to the main dialog.

The "Detail information" listbox contains the following information:
"Title" shows the complete title of the book.
"author" lists the author or authors of the work.
"Annotation" provides a synopsis of the book or magazine.
"Narrator" lists the human narrator for audio content.
"File size" displays the amount of storage the file requires.
"File Format" indicates whether the file is a Braille or audio digital talking book.

You can download a book in the "search Results" list either by pressing "Enter" on the book title in the list, or by navigating to the "Download" button and pressing "Enter". 

13.3.5 Option Settings
The "Options" dialog allows you to set items such as download location and whether the Braille Sense U2 automatically unpacks the NLS book or periodical.
To open the "Options" dialog, Tab to the "Options" button and press "Enter" or press "Enter-O" to open the "Options" dialog directly from anywhere in "NLS Download". The "Options" dialog contains the following items:
1.  Option settings list: contains "Auto unzip" on/off. 
2. "default download folder" button: opens a dialog for selecting default download location.
3. "Save" button: Press "Enter" on this button to save your settings.
4. "Close" button: Press Enter on this button to exit the "Options" dialog without saving your changes.
The option Settings list contains only "Auto unzip" on/off. Press "Space" to change the value of the setting.
The "Auto unzip" on/off option lets you choose whether you want the Braille Sense U2 to automatically unpack books or periodicals when they are downloaded. If this is set to "on", when the download completes, the Braille Sense U2 announces, "unzipping bookname'''." And automatically unpacks the contents and places it in a folder with the same name as the zip file. If you set this to "Off", you are returned to the main dialog immediately after downloading, and you must extract the zip file manually from the "File Manager".
The "Default Download folder" button opens a File Manager dialog in which you can choose the default download location for your NLS material. For example, you may wish to create a "DAISY" folder and have all your NLS material automatically download to that location. Use normal file/folder navigation commands to select the folder in which you want NLS material to be stored, and press "Space" to select your desired folder. Press "Enter" to save the location and return to the "Options" dialog. By default, the "Default Download Folder" is set to "flashdisk/downloads".
When you have chosen your desired settings, press "Enter" to save them, or Tab to the "Save" button, and press "Enter".