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these needs are not met in the commercial market.
Before 1950, the visually impaired could only borrow books in Braille from Sweden’s Association for the Blind. But after audiotape technology was developed, public libraries and MTM began to build up a book collection of talking books of non-fiction and fiction for adults as well as children. While in other countries it is usual that a central library for the blind lends media directly to the visually impaired, in Sweden already in the 1950s there was collaboration with public libraries. This model of collaboration has been very significant for reaching new readers, such as people with dyslexia. From the 1950s, books were recorded on audiotape, with a transition during the 1970s to cassette tapes. During the 1990s, there was a transition to CD format and now in the twenty-first century, audiobooks have become downloadable via the app Legimus. MTM offers talkings books with text (i.e. talking books which additionally contain the text and images from the printed book), easy-to-read books, books for reading practice, books in different languages and books for language practice. You can read more about MTM’s talking book activities on the Agency’s website. For an inquiry into how talking book activities are experienced by users of libraries, see the report Talande böcker och läsande barn. Barn berättar om talboksanvändning (Talking books and reading children. Children describe their use of talking books) (Lundh 2013). References Almerud, Peter (2004). Bibliotek i skymundan: en rapport om arbetsplatsbibliotek. Stockholm: Swedish Arts Council. Andersson, Annica & Hjertström, Annika (2006). “Det kanske är lite meningen att man ska vidga sina vyer”: en undersökning om yrkesförares inställning till läsning och användning av vägkrogsbibliotek. Borås: Borås University, Swedish School of Library and Information Science. Masters thesis. Bamkin, Marianne R. (2012). The promotion of reading on children’s mobile libraries in the United Kingdom. Dissertation: Loughborough University 2012. Bergstedt, Eva (2012). Bubblan: berättelser på väg. Utvärdering av ett lässtimulansprojekt. Björneborn, Lennart (2008). Serendipitetsfaktorer og brugeradfærd på det fysiske bibliotek. Danmarks Biblioteksskole Aalborgafdelingen. Bon, Ingrid; Cranfield, Andrew & Latimer, Karen (ed.) (2011). Designing library space for children. Berlin: De Gruyter Saur. Brodin, Carolina (2008). Folkbiblioteket och de alternativa låneverksamheterna – samma sak fast ändå inte? Uppsala University, ALM Department (archives, libraries and museums). Masters thesis. En bok är en bok är en bok? – en fördjupningsstudie av e-böckerna idag (2013). Rapporter från riksdagen 2013/14:RFR 3. Stockholm: Sveriges riksdag. Enemark, Anna & Poulsen, Ann Kathrine (2008). Fremtidens biblioteksbetjening af børn. Kbh, Biblioteksstyrelsen. Eriksson, Ida (2010). Boken kommer: förmedling och bemötande. Borås: Borås University, Swedish School of Library and Information Science. Masters thesis. Eriksson, Ann Catrine (ed.) (2013). Ständigt denna Bubbla: mobil lässtimulans i tre län. Rapport med utvärdering. Frid, Nina. Världens utmaning eller hopplöst fall? En lägesrapport om arbetsplatsbibliotek i Sverige år 2010. Griffiths, Rose; Comber, Chris & Dymoke, Sue (2010). The Letterbox Club 2007 to 2009: Final evaluation report. Leicester: University of Leicester School of Education. Hedenström, Solveig, Holmén, Annika & Lundgren, Lena (2010). Läskonster: nya former för lässti97