City of Canterbury Library - Sydney - Australia - This is the vibrant and multicultural and very busy library where the 9 City Council launch of Audio-Read Navigator was launched Thurs. Dec. 7th. The nine local government library services cooperated to get a $149,000 AUS$ grant from the State Library of NSW to give housebound clients access to new technology that with a machine voice reads them the daily newspaper or audio books that they can have downloaded to the device by visiting a participating local public library such as Bankstown City Library where I work or they can visit the www.audio-read.com.au website and download once they have secured the permission to do so once the pilot project is over.

Mr. Ron Haddrick was the special guest and MC. He told amusing and intriguing stories about when he was an actor and worked with Sir John Gielgud and Sir Laurence Olivier for the Royal Shakespeare Company in England and when he worked for EMI, TGV, AWA, and ABC radio doing radio dramas on the fly. Lately he has been the voice for many children's audio productions for talking books.

Mr. Bernard Hemmings who is a Home Library Service patron and Audio-Read Navigator user spoke about his satisfaction with the technology and demonstrated its ease of use.