Service Name: BRAILLE AND TALKING BOOK LIBRARY (BTBL) - CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY
Organization Name: CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY (CSL)
Location
Location Name: BRAILLE AND TALKING BOOK LIBRARY
- Accessibility: Potential limitations to access - call for details.
- Physical Address: 900 N Street, Sacramento, CA, 95814
- Mailing Address: PO Box 942837, Sacramento, CA, 94237-0001
- Description: Offers books in braille and offers narrated audiobooks that can be accessed through the BARD Mobile App, using a loaned Digital Book Machine and a USB Drive/book cartridges, or using a Third-Party NLS-Compatible Player. Available to people who are blind or cannot read standard print material in the usual manner due to a visual or physical disability. Each patron is assigned a reader advisor to help with his/her library service.Submit a BTBL Application. View the BTBL Patron Handbook.
- Website: http://www.btbl.ca.gov
- Email: btbl@library.ca.gov
- Phone(s): (916) 654-0640, (916) 654-1119, (800) 952-5666
- Hours: Monday through Friday 9:30 am - 4 pm, except state holidays
- Eligibility: Northern California residents who have a certified authority confirm that they are permanently or temporarily:- Legally blind, with vision in the better eye of 20/200 or less with corrective glasses, or- Have a visual field no greater than 20 degrees in diameter, or- Unable to see well enough or focus long enough to read standard print, even with corrective glasses, or- Unable to handle print books or turn pages because of a physical disability, or- Are certified as having a perceptual or reading disability of sufficient severity to prevent reading printed material in the usual manner.
- Requirements: Certification of disability by a certified authority. A certified authority includes doctors of medicine, doctors of osteopathy, ophthalmologists, optometrists, psychologists, registered nurses, therapists, and professional staff of hospitals, institutions, and public/welfare agencies.
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Areas Served:
- Yuba United States
- Butte United States
- Shasta United States
- Siskiyou United States
- Alpine United States
- Lassen United States
- Humboldt United States
- Sacramento United States
- Amador United States
- Colusa United States
- Trinity United States
- El Dorado United States
- Placer United States
- Mendocino United States
- Plumas United States
- Solano United States
- Sierra United States
- Nevada United States
- Glenn United States
- Lake United States
- Yolo United States
- Modoc United States
- Sonoma United States
- Napa United States
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