Library catalogues
Each of the specialist providers of books, newspapers and magazines in alternative formats have their own catalogue of titles:
RNIB Library catalogue
Access to over 170,000 items available for loan and/or sale in audio, large and giant print, braille and Moon. The catalogue includes books from RNIB, Calibre Audio, Torch Trust and the National Blind Children’s Society:
RNIB Talking Book catalogue
A basic catalogue of over 15,500 books from Talking Books:
RNIB Book Site
Browse and buy from over 12,000 audio books, 7,700 braille books, 150 accessible maps and 1,600 braille music manuscripts.
Calibre audio library - catalogue
Browse Calibre’s collection of over 8000 titles:
National Blind Children's Society - CustomEyes
NBCS CustomEyes sells large print books for children. Each book is customised to suit the format and font size required by the child:
- NBCS CustomEyes - includes links to Microsoft Word format Booklists of titles currently available for sale.
Golden Chord
A catalogue of Braille music available for sale. Golden Chord also provides an individual transcription service for customers who require music and music-related material in Braille:
Torch Trust
Attending church can be a surprisingly challenging experience for blind and partially sighted people. Anyone going into church is usually offered a bundle of printed material – a hymnbook, a Bible, perhaps a prayer book, an order of service, a news sheet and so on. Torch Trust has a catalogue of Christian literature available in braille, giant print and audio which can be borrowed through a free postal service.
Public libraries
Your local library will have its own catalogue and this will indicate if a title is available in large print or audio. Libraries are working together to share catalogues and a new development FAB Libraries is due to be launched in late 2011. This will make it easier to search for titles across many library services. If your local library does not have the title you want please ask them for help. There are schemes in place that enable libraries to lend to each other. There may be a charge for this service.