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Foreign language materials on BARD
By Alicia Waters | July 18, 2011
Beginning Friday, July 15, 2011, a new page on the Braille and Audio Reading Download (BARD) website will feature specially acquired foreign-language materials. Readers may access this page through a link on the main BARD page labeled Digital Foreign-Language Collection.
The first work available on the page is the five-volume historical survey Los Ciegos en la Historia (The Blind in History) by Jesús Montoro Martínez, published and made available to NLS by the National Organization of Spanish Blind People—better known by its acronym, ONCE. Spanning more than two hundred hours of reading time, this Spanish-language work explores the lives of blind individuals and the social perceptions of blindness and visual impairment in cultures across the globe, including those of Egypt, China, Japan, Europe, Africa, and the Americas, from prehistory through the 1990s. Truly international and multicultural in scope, Los Ciegos en la Historia is an appropriate premier work for the BARD digital foreign-language page.
In the coming months, other downloadable foreign-language books will be made available via this link, including Russian, German, French, and Lithuanian titles.
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