Focusing on the Effective Forms and Methods of Lending Literature in Braille and on Sound Carriers.
Scientific and technical development has notably in creased in the last few decades. There is talk of the penetration of the scientific-technical revolution in all countries of the world and in all spheres of human life, including the new devices and aids for the blind and visually imapired. We, the directors of printing houses and libraries for the blind, have the responsibility of taking immediate and full advantage, in our work, of the results of the rapid growth of this modernisation and technical development. The organisation of braille libraries, of recorded literature, and of books, magazines and manuals in large print for the partially sighted need not be isolated from the general development. Also in this same aspect it is necessary to search for new ways, new work methods, inas much as both the blind and visually imapaired represent at the present time a significant factor, which must be integrated, as an important part of society and state in normal life. The historica...