ABSTRACT
The Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) runs a library of academic and professional texts for visually disabled students and professionals. Listening Books runs an audiobook library service for anyone with an illness or disability that makes it difficult to hold a book, turn pages or read a book in the normal way. The recordings may only be sold or loaned to the designated audience or to recognized agencies representing the blind and the reading-disabled. The RNIB-backed Right to Read alliance campaigned for publishers and retailers to produce and stock more titles in accessible formats for the estimated 3 million people in the UK with sight problems. On the international front, April 2008 saw the launch of the world blind union’s International Right to Read campaign. The copyright licensing agency is responsible for photocopying and scanning licences to the education, government, business and professional sectors.
