- LOUIS
- Contains information about more than 152,000 titles of accessible materials,
including braille, large print, sound recordings, and computer files from
over 200 agencies throughout the United States.
- Library of Congress - National Library
Service
- A network of libraries that provides free service to persons who are
unable to use standard printed material because of visual or physical
disabilities. Patrons can borrow audio or braille books. Books and magazines
in audio form (talking books) and braille are delivered to readers by
postage-free mail and are returned in the same manner. Specially designed
phonographs and cassette players are also loaned free to persons who borrow
talking books from their library.
- Talking Tapes
- A nonprofit organization that provides textbooks on audiotape for individuals
at a minimal cost per item.
- netLibrary
- The internet's premier provider of electronic books to academic, public,
corporate and special libraries.
- Bartleby.com
- A service that publishes literary classics, nonfiction, verse, and reference
free of charge for the home, classroom, and desktop of each and every
internet user.
- Bibliomania
- Contains an extensive library of classic literature, reference books,
and study resources for free and purchase.
- Project Gutenberg
- Makes information, books, and other materials available to the general
public in forms a vast majority of the computers, programs, and people
can easily read, use, quote, and search.
- The On-Line Books Page
- A website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable
over the internet.
- Electronic Text Center
- Over 16,000 publicly-available e-books, mostly classic American and
British fiction but many others.
- InternetPublic Library
- The first public library on the internet committed to providing library
services to all users.
- National Braille Press
- A nonprofit printing house that is one of the world's leading producers
of braille. Has free downloads and other products for sale.
- Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic
- Considered the nation's leading educational lending library of academic
and professional educational materials in recorded and computerized formats.
- American Printing House for the Blind
- The world's largest company devoted solely to creating products and
services for people who are visually impaired. APH manufactures braille,
large type, recorded, computer disk, and tactile graphic publications,
as well as a wide assortment of educational and daily living products.
- Library Reproduction Service
- Sells reproduced textbooks and instructional materials, as well as reference
works and fiction, in large print. They provide materials for grades K-12,
postsecondary education, GED preparation, adult basic education, literacy
programs, and English as a second language. There is a large-print reproduction
service for titles not listed in their catalog.
- Dancing Dots Braille Music Technology,
LP
- Develops and adapts music technology for the blind. It also is a distributor
of assistive technology and music products.
- Alternative
Formats to Print Sources
- Provides links to catalogues and indexes for all formats and alternative
formats to print.
Public Libraries provide additional sources of educational aids. The following
are the most accessible for Haverford Students: