FOREIGN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY
You may have heard patrons of our library are now capable of receiving books from foreign countries participating in the Marrakesh Treaty. For those unfamiliar with the Marrakesh Treaty, it allows exchange of accessible-format books across international borders between organizations that serve people with a print disability.
For example, if a patron of our library desired a book published in a different country participating in the treaty, they could borrow that book by asking us to request it from the institution in a different country. This benefits patrons who speak other languages and wish to read books in their preferred language while we have a limited number of foreign language books in our collection.
Foreign Language Quarterly is a publication of the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled which lists popular foreign language books recently added to their library and books that are available through a network of cooperating libraries. This NLS publication will be posted to their website every three months, and books listed in the publication are available to all eligible patrons and those who qualify for our library’s services. In the first volume of Foreign Language Quarterly, you will find books in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian.
The books you see in Foreign Language Quarterly will be available for download through BARD immediately. To browse for foreign language books on BARD or Voyager there are instructions on the NLS webpage: slnc.info/NLS-FLB. For our patrons who prefer to receive their books by mail, they may order them from NCLBPH and they will be loaded on your Books on Demand cartridge. You can contact us by phone, email, or chat!