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What's Available at the Library
Books and Magazines in Alternative Formats
Descriptive Videos
Music Services
Telephone Reader Program
Equipment and Accessories
Books and Magazines in Alternative Formats
Patrons of Braille Institute's Library may request free cassette and braille subscriptions to more than 40 popular magazines, including U.S. News & World Report, National Geographic, Consumer Reports, Good Housekeeping and many others. Current issues are mailed to readers at approximately the same time as print issues appear. Magazines are selected for the program in response to reader interest.
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Descriptive Videos
Braille Institute Library offers hundreds of descriptive videos for you to borrow free of charge. Due to limited copies, we ask that you borrow only one DVS at any given time and that you return it within two weeks of receipt. We also ask that you return the last video you checked out before requesting a new one.
A catalog of titles is available for download: Descriptive Video Catalog. 400 kilobytes PDF download.(400 Kb Download PDF viewer, Acrobat Reader, from adobe.com)
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Music Services
Music materials are available directly from the NLS. The collection consists of scores, textbooks and books about music and elementary instruction in voice and popular instruments.
To order materials from this collection call the NLS directly at: 1-800-424-8567
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Telephone Reader Program (TRP)
Our award-winning Telephone Reader Program allows patrons to use their touch-tone telephones to listen to national and local news as well as grocery and department store ads in both English and Spanish.
If you are a Library patron and would like to receive this service, please contact our Telephone Reader staff by phone or e-mail at:
1-800-808-2555 or (323) 660-3880, Ext. 1290
E-mail: news@braillelibrary.org
For a free demonstration, call:
(866) 333-1111 and use ID Number 5555
Here is what's available in English:
- USA Today
- K-Cal 9 local news
- Grocery, discount, and department store ads
- Audio-Described Television Listings
- Braille Institute Announcements
- Library newsletters and more
Here's what's available in Spanish:
La Opinión:
- Primera Pagina
- Pais
- Latino America
- Ciudad
- Horoscopo y mas
Annuncios de super mercados en Español:
- Vons
- Food 4 Less
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Equipment and Accessories
Playback equipment is on loan to patrons for as long as they borrow recorded materials provided by NLS and cooperating libraries.
Talking-book machines play cassettes recorded at 15/16 ips and the standard speed of 1 7/8 ips on 2 and 4 tracks. Talking books DO NOT work on standard home cassette players.
