13 Tex. Admin. Code § 9.1 - Definitions
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.
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