NYC’s Library for the Blind in the News

Anonymous Patron writes Newsday.com is Covering The Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library, New York City’s library for the blind, that serves 14,000 members. The library also serves those blind since birth and those with learning disabilities. The library houses about 400,000 “talking books,” and distributes between 1,000 and 2,000 audiocassettes daily through the U.S. Postal Service.

Other services include descriptive videos, which are commercial videos with narration, and adaptive technologies enabling the visually impaired to surf the Internet.”