Catalogues
UnityUK
UnityUK is a subscription service which combines the catalogues of The Combined Regions and LinkUK, as well as the RNIB National Library Service Catalogue and COPAC. Public Libraries subscribed to UnityUK can locate and order accessible items through Interlibrary loan.
RNIB Library catalogue
Access to over 170,000 items available for loan and/or sale in audio, large and giant print, braille and Moon. The catalogue includes books from RNIB, Calibre Audio, Torch Trust and the National Blind Children’s Society:
RNIB Talking Book catalogue
A basic catalogue of over 15,500 books from Talking Books:
RNIB Book Site
Browse and buy from over 12,000 audio books, 7,700 braille books, 150 accessible maps and 1,600 braille music manuscripts.
COPAC
COPAC gives free access to the merged online catalogues of many major University, Specialist, and National Libraries in the UK and Ireland, including the British Library. Where Universities have added books in accessible formats to their catalogues they are included in COPAC.
Calibre audio library - catalogue
Browse Calibre’s collection of over 8000 titles:
National Blind Children’s Society
CustomEyes
NBCS CustomEyes sells large print books for children. Each book is customised to suit the format and font size required by the child:
- NBCS CustomEyes - includes links to Microsoft Word format Booklists of titles currently available for sale.
Golden Chord
A catalogue of Braille music available for sale. Golden Chord also provides an individual transcription service for customers who require music and music-related material in Braille:
Torch Trust
Attending church can be a surprisingly challenging experience for blind and partially sighted people. Anyone going into church is usually offered a bundle of printed material – a hymnbook, a Bible, perhaps a prayer book, an order of service, a news sheet and so on. Torch Trust has a catalogue of Christian literature available in braille, giant print and audio which can be borrowed through a free postal service.
WorldCat
WorldCat gives free access to the collections of libraries around the world. You can search for popular books, music CDs and videos—all of the physical items you’re used to getting from libraries. You can also discover many new kinds of digital content, such as downloadable audiobooks.
- Date: May 2009