TALKING BOOKS BY WEB AND APP Pia Hasselrot

TALKING BOOKS BY WEB AND APP Pia Hasselrot Åsa Wallström

Swedish Agency for Accessible Media, MTM is a government body that, in collaboration with local libraries, provides access to printed materials for people with reading disability.

Reading disability • Visual disability • Physical disability • Print disability and dyslexia • Learning difficulty

MTM’ service to students • Borrow talking books, braille books, and e-text • Order production of new course literature • Receive a software digital talking book player

Support to University students Student service Co-ord inator Reading studio Student Legimus (MTM) Teacher Library Mentor

MTM’s service to students MTM University library S t u University library d e n University library t s !

MTM Legimus – online catalogue and app • Download books • Information • Support • Download books • Borrow braille • Information University library • • • Lend books Order new books Registration for Legimus Information Support Student

Mål • Library for accessible media • More than 100 000 talking books and braille books • App and website • For users and libraries

legimus. se • Online catalogue • Download talking books and e-text • Order braille • Information • Inspiration

The app Legimus • Ios och Android • 3 phases 1. Reading only 2. Adjustments for newspapers 3. Searching and downloading inside the app • Connected to bookshelf in legimus. se

What have we learned? • Neverending story… • Not so many support questions • Personal instruction and support from the libraries are a strength

THANK YOU! www. mtm. se pia. hasselrot@mtm. se asa. wallstrom@mtm. se