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Collection Development
By Alicia Waters | December 7, 2010
The National Library Services for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) Collection Development Section (CDS) staff said that 50 titles are selected each week, approximately 60% are fiction and 40% nonfiction; 80% are adult and young adult and 20% children’s; 70% are current books and 30% are retrospective, that is, more than 2 years old. NLS adds approximately 500 children’s books to the collection each year; 70% of them audiobooks and 30% braille. It is increasingly difficult to find books for K-3 readers that are not heavily dependent on illustrations for comprehension. NLS Special Foreign Language Collection consists for the most part of cassette books in more than 60 languages, which patrons may obtain through inter-library loan. (excerpted from News Library of Congress July-September 2010)
All titles in the collection can be requested for RI members through Talking Books Plus.
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