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Talking book libraries
Talking Books, or books on audio tapes are now produced by many libraries in India. Given here is a list of such libraries, both in India and overseas. Click on a library name to find out more about the services offered and its contact details.Indian libraries
All India Confederation of the Blind, Delhi
Arushi, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
Blind People Association, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Blind Relief Association, Delhi
Electronic Media Production Centre, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), Delhi
Government Institution for the Blind, Ludhiana, Punjab
Kerala Federation of the Blind, Kerala
Mitra Jyoti, Bangalore, Karnataka
NAB M.P. Shah All-India Talking Book Center, Mumbai, Maharashtra
National Institute of Visually Handicap (NIVH), Dehradun, Uttaranchal
Rotary Helen Keller Talking Book Library (ROHTALK), Tamilnadu
R.N. Batra Talking Book Library (National Association for the Blind), Delhi
Sruti Information Centre, Delhi
The British Library, Pune [New]
The Poona Blind Men’s Association, Pune, Maharashtra
Victoria Memorial School, Maharashtra
All India Confederation of the Blind
Produces audio books
Contact details: All India Confederation
of the Blind
Sector V, Rohini
Delhi 110085
Phone: 91-11-27054082
E-mail: aicbdelhi@yahoo.com
Produces audio books
Contact details: Arushi
E-7/Hx5, Arera Colony
Bhopal 462016
Produces audio books
Contact details:
The Executive Director
Blind People Association
Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Road
Vastrapur, Ahmedabad (Gujarat)
Blind Relief Association, Delhi
The library has a Cassette Recording Studio for text books, and caters to the JPM School for the Blind as well as to post graduates and undergraduates from colleges of Delhi University. Cassettes are also supplied, on request, to institutions in and out of Delhi. Duplicates of existing cassettes are provided to students. A large number of volunteers from the community help in recording of text books/recreation material.
Contact details:
Mrs. Romila Ahluwalia
Blind Relief Association
Lal Bahadur Shastri Marg
(Near Hotel Oberoi)
New Delhi – 110003
Phone: +91-11-24361376
Fax: +91-11-24364730
E-mail: lbsbra@delhi1.mtnl.net.in
Website: www.blindrelief.org
Electronic Media Production
Centre,
Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU)
Produces audio books
Contact details: Electronic Media Production
Centre,
Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU)
Maidan Garhi
New Delhi 110068
Government Institution for the Blind
Produces audio books
Contact details: Audio Cassette Recording
Studio
Braille Bhawan
Jamalpur, Ludhiana
Kerala Federation of the Blind
Talking book studio at Thiruvananthapuram records and distributes books on tapes. 529 books in English, Hindi and Malayam have been recorded.
Contact details: Mr. Georgekutty Kareparampil
General Secretary,
Kerala Federation Of The Blind
Kunnukuzhi
Thiruvananthapuram 695034
Kerala
Phone: +91-471-2304993, 2304831
Fax: +91-471-2304993
Produces audio books
Contact details:
Mitra Jyoti
M-137, 9th ‘A’ Main LIC Colony
Sector 11, Jeevan Beema Nagar
Bangalore 560075
Karnataka
NAB M.P. Shah All-India Talking Book Center, Mumbai, Maharashtra
The N.A.B. M. P. Shah All India Talking Book Centre has produced around 3,700 titles. Currently, their members, and blind residents of South Africa and United Kingdom of Indian origin can also avail of:
- Around 2,561 titles in nine languages, namely: Gujarati, Sanskrit, Marathi, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Kannada, Tamil and English .
- Novels, fiction and other recreational literature.
- Monthly talking magazines: Listeners Digest in English, Indradhanush in Hindi, Saptarang in Marathi, and Swarsangam in Gujarati.
- Textbooks on law, economics and other subjects for University, High School and Secondary schools.
Contact details: Department of Employment
2nd floor, 11/12, Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan Road
Worli Seaface, Mumbai 400 025
Maharashtra
Phone: (+91)-22-498 8134
Fax No: (+91)-22-493 2539
E-mail: hemaupendra@nabindia.org
Website: http://www.nabindia.org
National Institute of Visually Handicap (NIVH), Dehradun, Uttaranchal
The institute has a National Talking Book Library (Audio Books) that has nearly 15,000 individual and Reader's Club members. The Unit records text books, novels, general books and magazines. The books are recorded on master cassettes and duplicated for individuals and organisations on a loan basis, free of charge.
It also brings out the following audio magazines:
- Chayanika (Fortnightly in Hindi)
- Spectrum (bi-monthly in English)
- Ankur (bi-monthly in Hindi for children)
Contact details: Mr. Salil Jain,
116, Rajpur Road,
Dehradun 248001, Uttaranchal
Phone: +91-135-27444979
Fax: +91-135-2748147
E-mail: nivh@sancharnet.in
Website: www.nivh.org
Rotary Helen Keller Talking Book Library (ROHTALK), Tamilnadu
A non-governmental organisation based at Madurai, the project extends services to visually impaired persons by providing talking books for home-based study and for referral study at the library.
Membership is open to any visually impaired person for a membership fee of Rupees 50. A disability certificate issued by a competent authority is required.
Members are provided a maximum of five books at a time (in cassette form) for a period of one week. These are also available through post.
ROHTALK has books on the following topics:
- School text books (as prescribed by the Government of Tamilnadu 6th to 12th Standards)
- College text books
- General knowledge books
- Short stories/novels
- Self-improvement books
Contact details: Nicholas Francis, Director
Rotary Helen Keller Talking Book Library
Vizhiyagam, Viswanathapuram,
Madurai 625 014
Tamil Nadu, South India.
Phone: +91-452–2649392, 2649087
Fax:+91-452–2641446
E-mail: rohtalk@yahoo.com
R.N. Batra Talking Book
Library
(National Association for the Blind), Delhi
The centre produces hundreds of talking books every year covering a range of topics from school and university textbooks to classics, fiction, poetry and short stories.
Persons above 5 years of age can avail the services by depositing a refundable security deposit of Rupees 100 for five audiocassettes. Institutional membership is for Rupees 1,000.
N.A.B.-Delhi is also a resource centre for the implementation of DAISY Digital Talking Book production and dissemination in India. All new books recorded at their Talking Book Library from November 2002 are recorded in digital format and are now available both on CD and in audiocassettes.
Contact details:
Ms. Deepika Sood
Coordinator, R.N. Batra Talking Book Library
National Association for the Blind
Sector V, R.K.Puram
New Delhi
Phone: +91-11-26102944, 26176379, 26175886
E-mail: nab@vsnl.com
Website: www.nabdelhi.org/talking_book.htm
Produces audio books
Contact details: Vinod Sena
Shruti Information Centre
1398 Dr. Mukherji Nargar
Delhi- 110 009
Phone: (+91)-11-27658467, 27653809
Fax: (+91)-11)27650787
E-mail: shruty@eth.net
The British library in Pune has a collection of around 500 titles of audio books in CDs. The list includes popular titles such as Bill Clinton reading out My Life to you, David Beckham’s My Slide, APJ Abdul Kalam’s Wings of Fire narrated by Girish Karnad, Shakespeare plays and so on. There are books to learn and improve English language, and listening skills. The collection is available to the residents of Pune and there is an annual library subscription.
Contact details: The British Library
FC Road
Pune 411004
Maharashtra
Phone: +91-20-2565 4351, 2565 4352
Fax: +91-20-2565 4351, 2565 4352
E-mail: bl.pune@in.britishcouncil.org
Website: http://library.britishcouncil.org.in/Profiles.asp?id=PN
The Poona Blind Men’s Association
Produces audio books
Contact details: The Poona Blind Men’s
Association
Technical Training Institute
109, Dr. Helen Keller Road
Ramtekdi Hadapsar
Pune 411012
Maharashtra
Victoria Memorial School, Maharashtra
A library unit for visually impaired has been added to its activities list. The state-of-the-art library is called `VMS-Navnit Shah Library Information and Resource Centre'.
This is claimed to be the first of its kind in the country, it has ‘Braille’ books, 'talking' books such as recorded cassettes and CDs, has Reading Machines, an enlargement equipment to help those with low vision. It also provides access to Internet and has space for listening to music and read-aloud sessions.
Contact details: The Victoria Memorial
School For The Blind
Tardeo Road
Mumbai 400034
Maharashtra
Phone: +91-22-494-4236
American Printing House for the Blind (APH)
It provides free subscriptions to Reader's Digest, Newsweek and other magazines on disposable audiocassettes. Reader's Digest is provided in Braille.
This is a resource of information about blindness, visual handicaps and other handicaps. It links to about 2300 individual links, organized by subject. The site offers information in alternative formats (braille, recorded cassettes, large print, e-texts, web audio accessible by people with print disabilities - those with visual and physical handicaps as well as dyslexia.
Christian Record Services, Inc
It has a lending library of books in Braille, large print materials, and cassette tapes.
Choice Magazine Listening (CML)
The choice magazine offers selected articles from popular print magazines on special-speed, 4-track audiocassette, available through the Library of Congress. It provides free service nationwide to eligible persons.
Jewish Braille Institute of America
It provides talking books, Braille and large-print books and also offers counseling and referrals to low vision care in the U.S.
Matilda Ziegler Magazine for the Blind
It circulates throughout the world and endowment provides for free distribution to legally blind people. There is no print edition and Is published in contracted braille, four-track/half-speed cassette, e-mail and diskette. It’s a lively and entertaining monthly that reprints articles covering a wide range of interests from the foremost newspapers and periodicals.
National Library Service for Blind and physically handicapped (NLS)
It provides free library service to individuals with visual impairments and offers Braille and large print materials and recorded books and periodicals.
Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic (RFBandD)
Provides free cassette tapes, textbooks for students, and materials needed for occupational pursuits.
It is a not-for-profit, special education library which provide textbooks, novels, and other materials on audio tapes to those who have difficulty reading due to physical, cognitive, visual or learning disabilities.
The Jewish Guild for the Blind
It provides free audio library services to individuals with visual impairments by mail (1600 titles, primarily best sellers), and a national radio reading service, broadcasting 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.
The Perkins Braille and Talking Book Library, Massachusetts
The Library provides free services to Massachusetts
residents of any age who are unable to read traditional print materials
due to a visual or physical disability.
There are more than 800,000 volumes of recorded books, 15,000 braille
titles and 100 cassettes, braille magazine genres and topics which are
circulated annually by Perkins.
The library works on both a walk-in and mail-order system. To find books, magazines, music publications, catalogs, bibliographies, and foreign-language materials available through the Library, review the available materials on their site.
To learn more about receiving Library services, please review the Service Eligibility Guidelines on the site. To apply for library service or to request magazines, download the appropriate forms from the Forms and Applications Section on the site.
Information on special programs including playback equipment, reference services, library services for students, and special music services is also available on the site.
Contact details: 175 North Beacon
Street
Watertown, Massachusetts 02472
Phone: + 617-924-3434
Fax: + 617-926-2027
E-mail: Library@Perkins.org
Website: www.perkins.org
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