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THE Report of the Librarian of Congress for 1932 witnesses to the effort being made to meet the needs of blind readers in the United States. The number of blind readers who borrowed embossed material during the year was 3,225, and the library collection now contains 24,824 items. An attempt is made to furnish blind readers with the best literature in all fields of knowledge which, on account of the financially unprofitable nature of embossed printing, they have hitherto been unable to obtain. The type of book suitable for transcription is limited, since works the value or attractiveness of which rests largely upon illustrations, are barred. But within the limits, the special accessions, which began with Woodrow Wilson's “George Washington” and contain, on the scientific side, works by Jeans, Maeterlinck, Arthur Keith, Harvey-Gibson, Russell and others, make a notable list of 126 works in Braille and 31 in Moon type.
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Service for the Blind. Nature 131, 906 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131906d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/131906d0