Are vision changes making it harder to enjoy reading? Begin your next chapter here.
If you have difficulty reading or handling regular print, you’re in the right place. Join us to come and enjoy books in a whole new way.
- Over 120,000 books: audio books on demand, large print books, hard copy braille books
- Online and in-person programs
- 1:1 connections
- Book clubs
- Walk-in service
- Free Wi-Fi
- Children’s room
Benefits of Reading
See where reading can take you. Reading or listening to audio books is more than a pastime—it’s a workout for your mind that provides powerful benefits:
- SHARPEN YOUR MIND with new ideas to delay cognitive decline.
- BOOST YOUR MEMORY by following plots and characters in stories.
- REDUCE STRESS by lowering your heart rate and easing tension.
- CONNECT WITH OTHERS to improve your emotional well-being and reduce feelings of isolation.
- BE A LIFELONG LEARNER to keep your mind active and support healthy aging.
Audio books and hard copy books — braille and large print — delivered by mail.
Available through Braille Institute as an authorized National Library Service branch.
Begin Your Next Chapter And Become A Library Patron.
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Submit an Application.
Call 1-800-808-2555, email bils@brailleinstitute.org or apply online today. We’ll review and get back to you.
Did you know?
Our quarterly newsletter is a great way to keep up with what’s going on here.
Books Are Just the Start
A phone line you can call to find the latest deals at the grocery store. A sensory room for kids. High-touch services and interesting book clubs. We are redefining what it means to be a “library.”
Telephone Reader Program
Loaners & eReaders
Children’s Library
Using a touch phone, you can access a wide variety of information in English and Spanish. Content includes:
- Periodicals such as LA Times, People, The New Yorker and more
- The latest weather updates
- Grocery and discount store ads
- Braille Institute newsletters and announcements
- Much more!
Braille Institute Library joins with the National Library Service in distributing braille eReaders to any and all interested Braille Institute Library patrons on long-term loans.
Using an eReader is a game changer for anyone who reads braille because it opens the door to a wealth of books, online content and more! Contact us to learn more.
From our Dots for Tots to thousands of braille, audio and large format books for children, your child will be delighted with our library and other activities including a summer reading program.
Did you know?
We have over 32,000 paper braille books.
Find Your Next Great Read
Not sure what to read next? Our staff and patrons have plenty of recommendations. On top of that, our Reader Advisors offer concierge-level service. Let them know what interests you and your preferred reading method, and they’ll get you set up.
The Rabbit Hutch
The Good Lord Bird
McBride takes a pivotal, troubled sequence in American history—John Brown’s abolitionist campaign—and retells it in a voice as comic and original as any we have heard since Mark Twain. The Good Lord Bird is daringly irreverent, but also wise, funny, and affecting.
Blackouts
Blackouts is a work of fiction that sees through the inventions of history and narrative. An extraordinary work of creative imagination, it insists that we look long and steady at the world we have inherited and the world we have made—a world full of ghostly shadows and flashing moments of truth.
Head Off & Split
Head Off & Split sustains a sensitive and intense dialogue with emblematic figures and events in African American life. Artful and intense, Finney’s poems ask us to be mindful of what we fraction, fragment, cut off, dice, dishonor, or throw away, powerfully evoking both the lawless and the sublime.
Did you know?
We have over 120,000 digital books.
