The National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled (NLS) has a new program called Braille on Demand. This new service allows braille readers to request up to five titles per month in paper braille format that patrons are allowed to keep as their own copies. The program is open to any Braille title in the BARD database which contains over 15,000 titles.
To request up to five monthly titles, patrons of the Talking Book Program will fill out the request form that goes
directly to NLS: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NLSbrailleondemand
Once NLS processes your request, they will mail the braille books straight to you within a few weeks.
Guidelines for requesting titles:
- Braille titles will be limited to books that are currently available on BARD. You can either search BARD for titles here https://nlsbard.loc.gov or call us to check if the titles you would like are available.
- Only complete titles will be distributed. Requests for partial titles (for example, volume one of a three-volume book) will result in receiving the entire book.
- As of now, patrons may request up to five titles per calendar month.
If you fill out the request form on your own, you will need to know the following:
- The book titles
- The BR numbers of the titles from BARD
- The name of your network library: New Jersey State Library – Talking Book and Braille Center (NJ1A)
We hope that our braille patrons will take advantage of this new service. If you have any questions or if you would like us to fill out the form for you please call us at (800) 792-8322.
