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Connecticut Unit
Location:
209 Orange Street
New Haven, CT 06510
Phone: 203-624-4334
Fax: 203-865-0203
Hours of Operation:
Monday, Wednesday,
& Thursday: 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Tuesday: 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Friday: 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Saturday: 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
The
Connecticut Unit's charter reads April 2, 1959. We are located
within walking distance of Yale and there are many other universities
in the area. Our new initiatives involve self-directed recording
and home recording.
The Connecticut Unit was
started in 1959 by a handful of volunteers who recorded textbooks
onto shellac disks in 600 square feet of space donated by
the New Haven Library. In the 1960s, the Connecticut Unit
was selected by national headquarters for a special and prestigious
project: recording the complete works of nine American authors.
The definitive editions were approved by the Center for Editions
of American Authors of the Modern Language Association. The
authors were: Samuel Clemens, Stephen Crane, Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Dean Howells, Washington Irving,
Herman Melville, Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman. Connecticut
was selected for this project because of its production quality,
which national headquarters described as "outstanding - particularly
in the recording of literature, the meticulousness of book
preparation and the quality of reading."
Later, in the early 1980s,
the Connecticut Unit was designated as a specialist in the
production of science and technology books because of its
high quality work in those areas. The Connecticut Unit:
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operates
a studio with six soundproof booths and sophisticated
recording and duplication equipment that produces four-track
tapes and cassettes
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uses
over 160 volunteers and a small paid staff for both tape
preparation and overall management
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records
tapes for over 750 Connecticut residents and thousands
of people across the country
records a wide
variety of texts including science and technology books
Volunteer Information:
Due to a small staff, our
studio has volunteers doing almost everything. Volunteers
do the bookmarking, tape checking, tape duplication, they
send bills to HQ for paying, thank you letters to donors,
grant writing and almost anything else. We need more math,
economics, chemistry, biochemistry and medical readers.
Make A Difference by Making A Donation
To use our secure online
server to donate to the Connecticut Unit, RFB&D headquarters,
or a combination of both, see our Donate
Now page.
Contact Information:
Call
203-624-4334 or send an e-mail to connecticut@rfbd.org.
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