The Central Library for the Blind in Israel recognised the limitations of existing catalogue systems used by libraries for the blind. Neither Braille nor recorded catalogues can provide a fully satisfactory system for the blind user.
Operation is quick, easy, and requires only an ordinary telephone.
But just as the printing revolution was not relevant to the illiterate, so not every blind or visually impaired person is able to use Braille or the new technologies. Those interested can nevertheless learn Braille and how to use equipment, and thus widen the reading range available to them. Libraries for the blind, which are the publishers of books in Braille, recorded books and large print books, today have the technological ability to increase their collections of books. The reason for the delay is not technological, but financial, because governments do not provide adequate budgets for this purpose. Even they have difficulty in locating a title in a Braille catalogue, which has many volumes, and in which each book is listed with additional details.