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Volunteer Braillists & Tapists, Inc.

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Contact Us

Volunteer Braillists and Tapists, Inc.
517 N. Segoe Rd. #200
Madison, WI 53705
USA

Phone: 608-233-0222
Fax: 608-233-0249
Email: office.vbti@tds.net

For book orders, braille transcription requests, or website feedback:
julie.vbti@tds.net

Hours 

9:00 AM to 4:00 PM (Central Standard Time)
Monday through Friday

Three ways to get the braille you need: 

  1. Request transcripton
  2. On loan from our library
  3. Buy your own copy from our library

1. Request Transcription

We transcribe almost anything you need or want.

  • Textbooks and school materials, including foreign languages, mathematics, and class materials for pre-school through graduate school.
  • Job-related materials.
  • Leisure reading books for children and adults.
  • Daily living materials: cookbooks, appliance instruction manuals, computer manuals, inspirational writings, knitting and crocheting patterns, and crossword puzzles.
  • Practical items such as menus, bank statements, agendas, minutes of meetings, and playbills.

2. Braille Library

Our shelves hold nearly 2,000 titles for children and adults, and our collection is always being enlarged and updated.  There is no charge for borrowing our books; just tell us your name and contact information and we'll get you started.  Everyone receives an annual list of the year's new books in January, in braille or print, according to your stated preference when you sign up.  Hard copies of our online inventory are available in braille or print and are updated every January.  They are available for loan or sale, just like our library books.

Lending Library Policies 

3. Price List

If you have something to be transcribed or are interested in purchasing a copy from our library, see our price list. Please contact VBTI for availability.

Taping

We record the information you need, if it is not commercially available.  Tapes are for sale only; we do not have a listening library.

Our other website

For further information about VBTI, including current events and more detailed staffing information, see  www.madison.com/communities/vbti/.

Become a Volunteer

We are always on the lookout for potential braillists. We require all our braillists to be certified through the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, under the Library of Congress. We offer the correspondence course for certification through local mentors and provide all materials at a cost of $45. It can be started at any time and takes about twelve to eighteen months. Once certified, we ask our volunteers to average about a braille page a day. All transcription is done at home using a computer.

At this time, our volunteer needs for taping and office work are filled.

Volunteer Braillists and Tapists, Inc. is a Madison-based non-profit Wisconsin (USA) corporation dedicated to providing print materials in braille or on audio cassette. Our philosophy is that everyone should have the opportunity to read.  VBTI serves visually- or print-impaired persons regardless of age, race, religion, sex, or national origin. 



This page was last updated on August 20, 2007.