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RNIB Update on inclusive society

In May RNIB released their latest report on...

Make a Noise in Libraries fortnight

Make a Noise in Libraries Fortnight 2013 will run...

Dyslexia - how to support users with...

Jan Seabourne, Guild Administrator and Librarian at the...

Intellectual Property Office report on copyright

On 20 December, the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO)...

RNIB report on commercial audio books

Earlier this year RNIB published a report titled ...

CILIP submission to DCMS on ebooks

On 17 November, CILIP published its submission to the...

Using Nexus 7 tablet for reading

Thanks to Leen Petre at RNIB for finding...

Organising your large print collection

Here is a nice example of positive action...

The Casual Vacancy in accessible formats

The Casual Vacancy, J.K. Rowling's first book...

Switch on to technology month

November is Switch on to technology month at...

Assessing the Impact of Reading

RNIB has amassed a body of qualitative evidence...

Sightline directory

Sightline directory lists the people, services and organisations...

Haggeye is five!

Haggeye, the forum for blind and partially sighted...

Library eBook developments

It is expected that the DCMS will shortly...

RNIB’s Pete Osborne talks about his...

Pete Osborne is the RNIB's Head of International...

RNIB presentation on library eBook services

RNIB's Helen Brazier eloquently sets out key issues...

eBook Debate on Radio 4

A rare mainstream appearance of the President of...

Sight loss UK 2012

Sight loss UK 2012 is an evidence review based...

Economic impact of sight loss report

RNIB have commissioned a report to estimate the...

MANIL at Southend Libraries

For Make a Noise in Libraries (MANIL) this...

MANIL at Midlothian Libraries

Midlothian Libraries are marking Make a Noise in...

MANIL at Newcastle Libraries

As part of this year’s Make...

Older people and the internet

BT has supported RNIB to carry out a...

IFLA statement on ebook loans

From the Share the Vision bulletin:On 11 May...

ebook lending

The current wrangles on eBook lending mean that...

Changing chapters

The way in which books have been presented...

Joint Statement on ebook accessibility

The Publishers Association, EDItEUR, RNIB, Dyslexia Action and...

Top titles in accessible formats

RNIB have surveyed the availablilty of the top 100...

Penfriend in Scotland

Milngavie and Bearsden libraries are leading the way...

Reading Sight at EDGE 2012

We're thrilled to say we won an award...

Call to end ebook DRM

Bookseller advocates abandoning Digital Rights Management (DRM) backed...

RNIB’s twitter marathon

On Wednesday 25 January RNIB are having a twitter...

National Braille Week

National Braille Week runs every year from 4 to 11...

Jodi Mattes Award

The Winners of the UK Jodi Awards 2011 for...

E-books in Welsh Public Libraries

A study titled 'E-books in Welsh Public Libraries'...

News brief

WHSmith and Kobo team upWHSmith claim to have...

ClearVision celebrates with new collection

This post is from the fortnightly Share the...

Google ebookstore opens in UK

The Google ebookstore opened on 6 October. Google say...

News brief

Amazon KindleFollowing the launch of three new Kindle...

‘Read for RNIB’ record attempt

To celebrate the first Read for RNIB Day,...

Accessible Booker Prize books

The shortlist for this years Man Booker Prize...

Gruffalo author records audiobook

A children's book by Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson...

New audiobook award

The Galaxy National Book Awards has just been...

Anne - Young Reading Lives

Anne is the mother of John who is 10...

John - Young Reading Lives

John is 10 years old and lives in the...

Ellie - Young Reading Lives

Ellie is 11 years old and is registered blind....

Talking newspapers - Southend Library

There are many Talking Newspaper organisations serving blind...

Simon - Young Reading Lives

Simon is Ellie’s father, Ellie was...

Grace - Young Reading Lives

Grace is 11 and lives in Ipswich, she was...

Home library service - Southend Library

Alan and Anne are volunteers for the Southend...

How the library can help - Southend...

Simon Wallace - community and diversity team managerCentral...

Ahmed - Young Reading Lives

Ahmed is 17 and a student at New College...

Accessible Adobe reading software

Adobe® Digital Editions is software often needed to...

Six steps to library services for blind...

There are 1.8m blind and partially sighted people...

“I want to access my local library”

Reproduced from NB magazine, June 2010, published by RNIB....