Application for Service
Interested in Talking Books or Braille Services delivered to your door?
Carefully read the description of ELIGIBILITY to determine if the interested individual is eligible for service. Basic factsheet about NLS services.
- APPLICATION FOR SERVICE
- Print application and mail back the completed form.
- Write to request an application for service as a last resort.
- Solicitud de Servicio - Application in español
Contact Information
- Call 501-682-1155 in the Little Rock area, or TOLL FREE: 1-866-660-0885, statewide.
- Fax: 501-682-1529
- email:nlsbooks@arkansas.gov
Ordering Books and Magazines
Online Catalog
Search the National Library Service for the Blind's Online Union Catalog to find titles of interest, then contact your reader advisor directly by phone, fax, mail, or email to have books sent immediately or added to your request list. In the Little Rock area call 501-682-1155. If you are outside of Little Rock call Toll Free 1-866-660-0885, or send an email to nlsbooks@.arkansas.gov.
Magazines
The National Library Service (NLS) provides approximately 75 popular MAGAZINES in Braille or recorded format. If you would like to receive free subscriptions to any of these magazines, call the library at 501-682-1155 (Toll Free 1-866-660-0885), or e-mail us at nlsbooks@arkansas.gov.
Music
Eligible borrowers may receive MUSIC materials directly from the Music Section of NLS. The collection consists of scores in Braille and large print; textbooks and books about music in Braille and large print; and elementary instruction for voice, piano, organ, guitar, recorder, accordion, banjo, and harmonica in recorded form. You may send an email to the Music Section at nls@loc.gov.
Braille
The National Library Service for the Blind (NLS) in Washington provides information on literary, mathematics, and music BRAILLE transcription and proofreading instruction (locally and via correspondence); literary Braille competency certification; and Braille technology.
BARD: Braille and Audio Reading Download
The National Library Service for the Blind (NLS) has the world’s largest collection of digital audio books and digital braille books available for free download. Up to 100 books a month may be downloaded free of charge. Access to the NLS Download Pilot website is restricted to authorized NLS readers. Patrons must register for and receive a login ID and password to access it.
Patrons must have an email address set up in their name with their home address and must have high speed internet access.
Books can be downloaded in a zipped format to a computer and extracted to a USB drive or an NLS compatible flash memory card, which can be used in an NLS digital player. Players are freely loaned for extended periods from LBPH.
BARD Mobile is also available from both Apple iTunes App Store and Google Play Store. Use BARD Mobile to download audio books or magazines directly to Apple or Android tablets and cellphones.
BARD books may also be played on commercially available NLS compatible players Victor Reader Stream.
