Library Services for Visually Impaired People
Library Services for Visually Impaired people
All Tameside Libraries offer a library service to people who are blind, partially sighted or have a visual impairment. It is free to join Tameside Libraries, and all the services listed are free of charge for people who are visually impaired. Dukinfield Library houses our Centre for the Visually Impaired (CVI).
Large Print Books
You can borrow large print books from every Tameside library. We have fiction and non-fiction books by popular authors, and books for children and teenagers.
Talking Books
All Tameside Libraries have audio books on tape for adults and children. Dukinfield Library has the largest collection of talking books. Larger Libraries also have books on CD.
Magazines on tape
There are over 20 magazines on tape you can borrow from Dukinfield Library. They include Prima, Woman's Own, National Geographic, BBC Wildlife and Which? magazine.
Music CDs
Denton, Droylsden, Dukinfield, Stalybridge and Tameside Central Library have music collections including pop music, jazz, classical and folk.
Reader's Groups
Get more out of your reading, meet new people and discover new authors by joining one of our reader's groups. including one specifically for visually impaired people that meets at Vision first in Ashton. Contact Chris Smith on 0161 342 4148 for more information.
Library Clubs
Dukinfield Library runs a monthly clubs for visually impaired people. There are regular speakers, free refreshments and transport can be arranged if needed.
Home Library Service
If you have reduced mobility, or find it difficult to leave home in the winter, and have no-one who can regularly visit the library on your behalf, you may be eligible to join the Home Library Service. Library staff will bring talking books, music or large print books to your home every four weeks.
Computer and magnification facilities
Libraries in Tameside have equipment that makes it easier to use computers and the internet.
Supernova will magnify what is on the computer screen by up to 32 times, and speak what is written on screen. Use Supernova at Denton, Hyde, Dukinfield, Droylsden, Stalybridge and Tameside Central Library in Ashton.
Basic Magnification - All our computers have basic magnification capabilities that allow you to increase what is on screen by up to nine times.
Cicero will read a document to you through a computer. Use Cicero at Dukinfield Library.
Large Keyboards that have keys ten times larger than a standard keyboard are available at all libraries. Click here for more information on special computer equipment available in our libraries.
A CCTV Magnifier that magnifies printed material and photographs in colour up to 50 times on to a TV screen, can be used at Tameside Central Library in Ashton.
For more information on these services please contact us:
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