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Volume 19, Issue 1
1 March 2001
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Case Report| March 01 2001

National library service for the blind and physically handicapped: digital plans and progress Available to Purchase

John Cookson;
John Cookson
John Cookson (jcoo@loc.gov) and Lloyd Rasmussen (lras@loc.gov) are both based at the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS), The Library of Congress, Washington, DC, USA.
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Lloyd Rasmussen
Lloyd Rasmussen
John Cookson (jcoo@loc.gov) and Lloyd Rasmussen (lras@loc.gov) are both based at the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS), The Library of Congress, Washington, DC, USA.
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2054-166X
Print ISSN: 0737-8831
© MCB UP Limited
2001
Library Hi Tech (2001) 19 (1): 15–21.
https://doi.org/10.1108/07378830110384539

The National Library Service (NLS) produces about 2,000 talking books and 50 magazines per year on specially formatted cassette tape for free distribution to a readership of about 764,000. Cassettes and special players are delivered by US Postal Service from a network of 138 participating libraries. To control the cost of technical obsolescence and to meet patron and sponsor expectations, NLS will replace this analog system with a digital system over the next ten years.

Keywords:
Disabled people, Information technology, Blind people, Information services
© MCB UP Limited
2001
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