Each of the samplers will have between 8 and 10 extracts from Braille and audio titles available for borrowing from NLB, RNIB and Calibre. There are also 10 A Touch Of booklists of Large Print titles downloadable from this site soon. The samplers will have the same theme across all formats though there may be some variation in the books featured inside depending on what is available in each format.
Some titles are also available in audio.
The Touch Of samplers will be launched in May 2001 with a festival week of creative reading events in public libraries under the banner of A Touching Experience . This will build on the partnerships between NLB, public library authorities and local voluntary associations for the blind forged in the successful programme of events for National Touch Reading Day and the first Touching Experience Festival in May 1999. A number of grants are available from the NLB to public libraries who work with their local associations for visually impaired people to make a creative reading event which involves VIP readers. To apply for a grant your authority must have attended one of the regional training sessions held up to December 2000, where details of the grant programme were disseminated.