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Reader-Enlarger Donated to Desmond Fish Library in memory of Robert K. Barnhart
An Optelec reader-enlarger has been donated to the Desmond-Fish Library in Garrison in memory of Robert K. Barnhart by his family. Any book, letter or document can be put on a movable platen, and the text is shown enlarged up to fifty-five times on a television like monitor. This machine is very useful for deciphering small print and old, hard to read records and other documents, as well as making almost any text readable for a person with a vision problem. It is also a great aid in removing splinters! The machine is located by the card cabinet in the library, near the new fiction section.
Robert K. Barnhart (1933- April, 2007) was an American dictionary maker and Shetland Sheep farmer who resided in Philipstown. He was co-editor of some editions of the Thorndike-Barnhart dictionaries and The World Book Dictionary. Perhaps his major work is The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology (1988), which is also available in abridged form as The Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology (1995). The machine given in his memory will allow other people who develop vision problems to continue to explore their scholarly interests.
The Desmond-Fish Library also has many materials for people who have difficulty reading, including 400 large print books, 2,000 books on cassette, 750 books on CD, 2,000 videos and 1,000 DVD's. The library can easily request other large print books from the more than 14,000 titles which are owned by other libraries in the Mid-Hudson Library System.
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