ABSTRACT
Technology has greatly expanded the ways in which reading materials can be provided to blind and handicapped individuals, and the law has been amended to include blind children and physically handicapped persons who cannot read standard print and to provide music instructional materials and scores as well as books and magazines. The National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS), operating out of a separate building several miles from the main Library complex on Capitol Hill, directs a multimillion-dollar enterprise that involves technological innovations in the recording and electronics fields. The Materials Development Division has the responsibility within NLS of deciding on the content of the reading program. It selects, distributes, and oversees bibliographic control of the reading materials and develops, tests, and evaluates related equipment. The Collection Development Section decides which of the more than 45,000 titles published in the United States each year will be included in the NLS collection.
