Books and other media
Reading chain
Concessions
Adaptive technology
Local information
Home library service
Useful links

Books and other media
Large print books available by a wide selection of authors (all libraries)

• Stories on tape - wide range of titles, including novels, biographies and some factual titles (available at all libraries)
• Stories on CD - available at Central Library and some community libraries
• Language cassettes and CDs to help learn a foreign language.

Updates of new spoken word titles on cassette and CD are available on an occasional basis - contact Jane Brierley on 0115 915 2827, or e-mail jane.brierley@nottinghamcity.gov.uk including an e-mail address if you have one.

The Webwords web site (http://www.webwords.org/) has extracts from over 500 spoken word titles, and is a useful way of finding out if you like the style of a particular narrator/reader.

You may find the Revealweb site useful (http://www.revealweb.org.uk/)- it is a national listing of books and other items published in accessible formats. Titles on the Revealweb database may be available from your local library - please ask staff for details or consult our on-line catalogue, Nelib.

Reading Chain
Would you like to try some tapes or CDs which are new to you? Are you willing to give us a brief review about titles you have listened to or read?

Join our reading chain for those with visual impairment and meet fellow reviewers every six months to compare notes.
Contact Cat or Christina on 0115 915 2873 or e-mail cat.smith@nottinghamcity.gov.uk or Christina.rave-conn@nottinghamcity.gov.uk.
Click here for information on other library reading groups.

Concessions
People with visual impairment. do not pay overdue charges.

Adaptive technology
Click here for information on Nottingham Connected computers for all.
In large Community libraries and the Central Library we have computers with large screens, tracker ball mice and large print keyboards. Supernova (screen enlargement software with facilties for reading screen text) is available on some computers in City libraries. Please ask staff for details.

In the Central Library on Floor 3, there is a CCTV to enable enlargement of your own papers and library materials. Please ask for help to use this machine on 0115 915 2811 or e-mail arts.library@nottinghamcity.gov.uk

Local information
Are you interested in old newspaper or trying to do your family tree? In the Local Studies Library in the Central Library there are microfilm and fiche machines to enlarge the resources to help you. Contact us on 0115 915 2873 or e-mail local_studies.library@nottinghamcity.gov.uk
For more information on the Local Studies Library or on family history, please click here.

Picture the Past is a web site where you can find photographs of the local area which will enlarge for easy viewing. The address is http://www.picturethepast.org.uk

Nottinghamshire Voices is a collection of oral history memories and local books on tape. Information is available at all libraries.

Home library service
Are you unable to get to a library? Our home library service can bring you books to your home.
Contact: Terranum Abbas on 0115 915 8722 or e-mail terranum.abbas@nottinghamcity.gov.uk

Useful links

Calibre - Free postal cassette borrowing service
National Library for the Blind
Nottinghamshire Royal Society for the Blind
Royal National Institute for the Blind
Talking Newspapers Association UK