For National Library Shelfie Day, some folks from the NLS Facebook team showed us their bookshelves. Here is a description of the video: The video opens with a handwritten title card that reads “National Library Shelfie Day!” Six photos in rapid succession show NLS staff members — and/or their pets — and their bookshelves. Some bookshelves display a dozen or so books while others show several hundred books, with spines displaying a variety of titles from biography to zoology. In the second half

The National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, part of the Library of Congress, is a free braille and talking book library service for people with temporary or permanent low vision, blindness, or a disability that prevents them from using regular print materials. Through a national network of cooperating libraries, NLS circulates books and magazines in braille or audio formats, that are instantly downloadable to a personal device or delivered by mail free of charge. One way NLS f

The National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled (NLS), which is part of the Library of Congress, has the world’s largest collection of braille music scores, from J.S. Bach to Taylor Swift. Here’s how the scores are digitized, which grants NLS patrons more convenient access to the material! | The Library of Congress