Life Behind the Reference Desk featuring Liz Burns

YA Librarian Tales just published an interesting interview with the Talking Book and Braille Center's youth services librarian, Liz Burns. Here's an excerpt from Liz's interview:

"One misconception about our program is that our audiobooks are the same ones that are available in public libraries or bookstores. People think “oh I don’t need those books” because their library has audiobooks or they buy their own audiobooks. Our audiobooks are all professionally done with professional narrators, but (with a handful of exceptions) they are not commercial audiobooks. Yes, there is some overlap of titles (Hunger Games!) but there are other books on audio we have that, quite simply, are not available in a library or bookstore. Midlist titles that aren't made into audiobooks, older titles that are unavailable at public libraries, nonfiction books -- these are all examples of what we have that public libraries do not."

Check out the entire article here.