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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Frequently Asked Questions (in contracted braille)
PDF file for keyboard fillable application
Reading Disabilities - NLS/BPH Factsheet
Special cassette and record players
Cassette player operating instructions
Magazines In Accessible Format
Listen to a sample of a talking book (RealAudio format)
Current Business Plan (September 2006)
Current Strategic Business Plan for the Implementation of Digital Systems (December 2003)
Music Section Catalog Order Form
Braille Music Transcribers, Circular 4
Instructional Cassettes Catalog in HTML
Instructional Cassettes Catalog in plain text
Librettos for Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts, 2003-2004 Season
Songs in the NLS Popular Music Lead Sheets Series
Newsletters - NLS News,Update and Flash
Bibliographies home page introduction and links to:
Accessibility: A Selective Bibliography (1994)
Assistive Technology: A Selective Bibliography(2000)
Disability Awareness: A Selected Bibliography (2003)
Library and Information Services for Blind and Physically Handicapped Individuals (2006)
Circulars home page introduction and links to:
Assistive Technology Products for Information Access (2006)
Bibles and Other Sacred Writings in Special Media (1999 in HTML)
Bibles and Other Sacred Writings in Special Media (1999 in contracted braille)
Blindness and Visual Impairments: Information and Advocacy Organizations (2001 in HTML)
Braille Literacy: Resources for Instruction, Writing Equipment, and Supplies (2004 in HTML)
Deaf-Blindness: National Organizations and Resources (2004 in HTML)
Deaf-Blindness: National Organizations and Resources (2004 in contracted braille)
Employment of People with Disabilities: A Resource Guide (2004 in HTML)
Guide to Spoken Word Recordings: Popular Literature (2004)
Information for Travelers with Physical or Visual Disabilities (2002)
Learning Disabilities: Organizations and Resources (2004)
Magnifying Devices, A resource guide (2002)
Physical Disabilities: National Organizations and Resources (2003) in plain text
Reading Materials in Large Print (2005)
Sources of Audiovisual Materials on Disabilities (1995)
Sources of Braille Reading Materials (1996 in HTML)
Sources of Braille Reading Materials (1996 in contracted braille)
Directories home page introduction and links to:
Factsheets home page introduction and links to:
Books for Blind and Physically Handicapped Individuals (Annual Factsheet in HTML)
Books for Blind and Physically Handicapped Individuals (Annual Factsheet in contracted braille)
Copyright Law Amendment (1996)
International Interlibrary Loan (1990)
Library Service to Institutions (1995)
Libros para Ciegos y Impedidos Físicos (2003)
Music Services for Blind and Physically Handicapped Individuals (2003 in HTML)
Music Services for Blind and Physically Handicapped Individuals (2003 in contracted braille)
NLS Automation Activities (2003)
Network of the National Library Service for the Blind (1996)
Playback Machines Provided on Free Loan to Eligible Individuals and Institutions (1999)
Selected Sources for Electronic Texts (2005)
Selected Sources of Electronic Texts (2005 in contracted braille)
Selected Veterans Organizations (2003)
Sources for Playback Machines Compatible with NLS Books (2005)
Other Writings introduction and links to:
Art and Science of Audio Book Production
by Bill West
Text of September 1995 NLS publication
Building Bridges: Library Advocacy and Reaching
Out by Margaret Andrews
Keynote address at Western Conference of Librarians
Serving Blind and Physically Handicapped Individuals, May 1997
Foreign Language Materials by
James R. Herndon
This page describes
non-English audio and braille materials produced and offered by NLS, by
NLS cooperating libraries, and by other organizations, foreign and domestic.
Instructions on how to search the NLS Voyager catalog and the internet
to locate audio and braille foreign language materials are provided,
as well as links to sixty-four language-specific referral documents. 2006
Guidelines for Accessing Alternative Format
Educational Materials by Barbara Nail-Chiwetalu
A Web article posted by the U.S. Department of Education,
March 1, 2000
Our Digital World by Frank Kurt Cylke
An address to conventions in 2000 of the American Council
of the Blind and the National Federation of the Blind
Reflections
of a Lifetime Reader by Robert V. Hine
Text of 1994 address to the national conference in Denver
Say How? in HTML (Web) format (403 kilobyte
file)
a pronunciation guide to names of public figures
The ABC Book in HTML (Web) format (40 kilobyte
file)
a pronunciation guide to commercial names
Transformations . . . or the complex story of
going digital by Elsebeth Tank
An address to the 2002 national conference of librarians
serving blind and physically handicapped readers
We Are Nearly There, A Digital Odyssey
by Frank Kurt Cylke
An address to 2001 conventions of the American Council
of the Blind and the National Federation of the Blind
Reports introduction and links to:
"Digital Talking Books: Developing a User Interface" by John
Cookson and Lloyd Rasmussen, presented at Technology and Persons
with Disabilities sponsored by the Center on Disabilities, California
State University, Northridge; March 2001.
http://www.csun.edu/cod/conf/2001/proceedings/0030cookson.htm
"Digital Talking Book Standards Developed By NLS and Partners Under
NISO Auspices" by John Cookson, Michael Moodie, and Lloyd Rasmussen.
http://http://www.tsbvi.edu/textbooks/afb/kit/tkit49.htm
"National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped: Digital Plans and Progress" by John Cookson and Lloyd Rasmussen. http://www.tsbvi.edu/textbooks/afb/kit/tkit48.htm
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Posted on 2007-10-09