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Collection
The library collection consists of approximately 48,000 titles in a four track recorded format, with a broad range of fiction and non-fiction subjects, for all ages.
Magazines
Over 80 national magazines are available free of charge to our eligible patrons in Braille or on cassette. An additional seventeen titles on cassette (along with Reader's Digest in large print) are available to our patrons through the Montana Talking Book Library. These publications include: American History, Arizona Highway, Choice, Guidepost, Humpty Dumpty, Modern Maturity, National Geographic Traveler, Smithsonian, Southern Living, Saturday Evening Post and Time.
Montana Outdoors and Montana Magazine of Western History are recorded in our local Helena recording studio. To request a free subscription to any of these magazines, mail an order form to our address (See "Contact Us" for address), email to mtbl@mt.gov or call and ask for a Reader Advisor at 1-800-332-3400.
The National Library Service (NLS) online International Union Catalog has migrated to a new system. The new database is contained in a system developed by the Endeavor Corporation. It is named Voyager. The database has the same records that existed in Web-BLND with some technical changes that enable greater flexibility in searching the catalog and in working with results of searches.
This interface includes pages for quick search, single term search, and multiple term search of the NLS catalog. The link, "Search the Catalog", found on each page of the NLS site links to the text-only interface, "Quick Search". From the quick search page, you can link to the single and multiple term search pages. You can also link from the text-only pages to the Voyager interface for searching the NLS catalog. The text-only catalog also contains a form for remote searching of the National Library for the Blind (U.K.) database.
