Library and Information Services
The right to read is basic, yet much of society's written information remains inaccessible to people who cannot read standard print.
RNZFB members can borrow talking books, audio magazines and braille books from the RNZFB's Library and Information Services. The Library aims to make available titles that are being read by the public generally, and so its collections include popular fiction, classics, and publications on a range of non-fiction subjects.
The Homai Special Formats Library lends talking books, large print books, and braille and other tactile books to children and young readers throughout New Zealand.
Only people registered with the RNZFB are able to borrow from its Library.
What makes our Library unique?
- The range of fiction and non-fiction material in accessible formats.
- Titles - including talking books - are unabridged.
- Selections from a number of magazines are recorded on to audio cassette.
- The books and magazines are delivered to the borrower's letterbox in easy-to-handle mailing containers. The Ministry of Social Development contracts NZ Post to transport braille and talking books to individual readers, and then back to the Library.
For more information please follow these links:
Library circulation
Online catalogue
The Homai Special
Formats Library
History of the RNZFB Library
Talking
books
To contact the Library please phone 0800 24 33 33 or email library
Donations and sponsorships
The Library relies on the thousands of New Zealanders whose financial support makes it possible for blind, deafblind and vision-impaired people to read. Find out more about donating to the Library.