The International Union Catalog of Braille and Audio Materials has added more than 30,000 catalog records from the United Kingdom's National Library for the Blind. The addition brings the database to 21.4 million copies of more than 370,000 books and magazines from collections in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and New Zealand.
The catalog, which is available at lcweb.loc.gov/nls/web-bind/bph.html, can be searched by author, title, subject, and keyword. Many search limiting options are available.
Items in the database are available only to qualified users of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped Program through NLS cooperating libraries and to those libraries requesting interlibrary loan service for blind or handicapped individuals.
Additional information is available by phone, fax, and e-mail.
[Contact: Robert E. Fistick, NLS; tel: 202-707-9279; fax: 202-707-0712; e-mail: rfis@loc.gov]
