On thursday 14th November 2019, National Council for the Blind of Ireland (NCBI) launched Bookshare Ireland which is the country’s largest digital accessible library.
Bookshare Ireland is specifically designed to support students with a visual impairment and print disabilities attending higher or further education by providing instantaneous access to over 500,000 academic books and other materials, in the student’s preferred format (DAISY Audio, DAISY with images, digital braille, PDF and Word). For the first time ever, this guarantees equity of access to the curriculum with their sighted peers.