The Staffing and Salaries section of the 2024 Public Library Statistical Report is now available for download.

Established through the National Library for the Blind Endowment.

This paid internship offers legally blind individuals the opportunity to work at NLS in areas that support services for the blind, including collections

The end of the year brings forth additional delivery holidays. There will be no LORI delivery on Dec 24, 25 & 31 and Jan 1. Please report any additional library closures.

The December program Smart Speaking to The Smart Speaker will be held on Thursday, December 19. The program will begin at 7:00 p.m. eastern time with a brief presentation

The rest of the hour will be spent answering questions regarding the presentation or any other questions about using the My Talking Book Skill on the sm

The topic for the Thursday, December 12, 2024, Many Faces of BARD program will be Advanced Searching: A Deep Dive into the NLS Catalog.

The program will begin with a presentation by Dominick Spinelli, Head of the Collections Development Section at NLS.

There is no LORI delivery on Thursday, November 28 and Friday, November 29 for Thanksgiving. (School library delivery is also cancelled for Wednesday, November 27).

The NLS New Amazon Alexa Smart Speaker app for BARD.

If you would like to sign-up for My Talking Books skill on Amazon Alexa-enabled smart speakers, please complete a Patron Registration Form at

Join us for our next NLS Music Notes meeting on Tuesday, November 19, at 7:00 p.m. eastern time via Zoom.

Our topic will be Popular Music Lead Sheets (PMLS)—a publication produced by the NLS Music Section.