TALKING BOOK & BRAILLE
The New Jersey State Library Talking Book & Braille Center (TBBC) serves New Jersey residents of all ages (children, teens and adults) who cannot read standard print or who cannot hold a book or turn the pages of a book because of a physical impairment, a reading disability, or a visual impairment. TBBC provides no-cost, home-delivered services as a regional library of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS), a division of the U.S. Library of Congress. In addition to serving individuals, we serve all places in NJ that serve eligible residents and we serve libraries. You must apply for service.
Contact us: Call toll-free 800-792-8322; Email tbbc@njstatelib.org.
The New Jersey State Library Talking Book & Braille Center provides books in Braille and audio formats. TBBC’s collection has tens of thousands of book titles and dozens of periodicals available. Machines for playing the recorded materials are available on loan from TBBC. We also have an app for Apple & Android devices: BARD Mobile.
Our services include:
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Braille Books
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Large Print Books for Children, Teens & Young Adults.
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Newsline - all members of The New Jersey State Library Talking Book & Braille Center (TBBC) are eligible to register for a no-cost news reading service from the National Federation of the Blind: Newsline. Newsline offers access to hundreds of audio newspapers, grocery ad flyers and magazines via the internet, telephone access, on-demand emails, or via the NFB-Newsline mobile app for Apple devices. To register for Newsline and for more information, contact TBBC at 800-792-8322.
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Other resources:
Be My Eyes - Be My Eyes is a free mobile app with one main goal: to make the world more accessible for blind and low-vision people. The app connects blind and low-vision individuals with sighted volunteers and companies from all over the world through a live video call. Download for IOS or Android.
https://www.loc.gov/nls/ - Library of Congress