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Clear Vision Project

A subscription based service, ClearVision is a UK postal lending library of mainstream children's books with added braille. All books have braille, print and pictures, making them suitable for visually-impaired and sighted children and adults to share.

RNIB National Library Service

The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) provides a wide range of library and information services for visually impaired people, their families and anyone with an interest in visual impairment. The site includes details of how to join the RNIB Lending Library, the largest collection in Europe (books available in Braille and Moon).

Literacy: Shared Reading Project

A US programme that teaches parents and caregivers how to read to their deaf children and strategies to make book sharing most effective.

SLIC: Company Limited by Guarantee/Registered in Scotland No.129889/Scottish Charity No.SC17886

Scotland's Information: use our map to find libraries, museums and archives
Research Collections Online: subject strength listings for the larger general libraries in Scotland
Scottish Library and Information Resources: find a library, librarian, museum or archive
Scottish Distributed Digital Library: digital collections with Scottish themes
Scottish Collections Network: an online catalogue of collections held in Scottish libraries, museums and archives
Co-operative Information Retrieval Network for Scotland: a one-stop shop for finding materials held in the collections of many libraries in Scotland

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