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Download full textLibrary of Congress, Washington, DC. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. – 1997
This directory lists library resources for individuals with blindness or physical disabilities. The first section of the directory lists National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) network libraries and machine-lending agencies arranged alphabetically by city. In several states, two regional libraries have been…
Descriptors: Blindness, Braille, Libraries, Library Collections
Cylke, Frank Kurt – 1983
Two meetings of the International Federation of Library Associations Section of Libraries for the Blind (BLISTA) are summarized. The first was an expert meeting which was held in Marburg/Lahn, Federal Republic of Germany, in August 1983. Participants included 51 librarians and technical experts serving blind and physically disabled individuals in…
Descriptors: Blindness, Braille, Foreign Countries, International Organizations
Market Facts, Washington, DC. – 1981
In order to develop a profile of the readership served by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS), and to identify readers' interests and concerns as an aid to future program planning, a users survey was conducted during the autumn of 1979. After a questionnaire was designed and tested, NLS members were surveyed…
Descriptors: Blindness, Braille, Libraries, Library Materials
Cookson, John; Cylke, Frank Kurt; Dixon, Judith; Kormann, Wells B.; Moodie, Michael M.; Redmond, Linda – 2002
This monograph summarizes the status of the Library of Congress's National Library Service (NLS) Talking Book Digital Conversion Project, a project to offer digital sound reproducers and its library materials in digital format beginning in 2008. Following an introductory section describing National Library Service services and users and the…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Adults, Blindness, Braille
Allen, Edward E. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1921
The most notable events affecting the status of the blind within this biennium are: The arousing of the attention of society to the existence and needs of the handicapped; the labor shortage, which created many and new openings for their employment; and the Federal law providing, under certain conditions, for the rehabilitation of people injured…
Descriptors: Library Services, Psychological Studies, Blindness, Special Schools
American Association of Instructors of the Blind, Washington, DC. – 1966
THE THEME OF THE CONVENTION WAS "RESEARCH--KEY TO PROGRESS," AND PAPERS WERE DELIVERED IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS (1) RESEARCH ON THE TEACHING OF READING AND IMPROVING READING SKILLS, (2) RESEARCH ON INDEPENDENT LIVING SKILLS AND ORIENTATION, MOBILITY, AND TRAVEL, (3) RESEARCH ON THE CHILD WITH LIMITED BUT USEFUL VISION, (4) RESEARCH ON THE…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Blindness, Braille, Children
