Services for Visually Impaired

Library Services for Visually Impaired Citizens

We are pleased to announce that several library branches offer special library services for citizens with visual impairments. These services are designed for people who have limited vision or have completely lost it.

Readers can take advantage of the following opportunities:

• Work on specially equipped library computers;
• Scan, recognize and read books and other documents with flat text;
• Search and process information on the Internet, as well as read the library’s electronic books;
• Read literature written in Braille.
• Use of Braille printer (device for printing text in Braille)

These services are available at the following branches:

• A.P. Chekhov Central City Library, address: Almaly District, Gogol Street, 109;
• ALATAU CREATIVE HUB, address: Almaty, Nurkent, 5/11;
• Library Branch No. 14, address: Bostandyq District, Rimsky-Korsakov Street, 3;
• Library Branch No. 4, address: Almaly District, Abay Avenue, 141;
• Kulboldy branch, address: 1B Gerold Belger Street;
• Zhambyl City Youth Library, address: Almaly District, Nazarbayev Avenue, 43;
• Kazakhstan Writers Library, address: Auezov District, 11th Microdistrict, 37;
• I.A. Krylov City Children’s Library, address: Auezov Street, 175;
• Children’s Library No. 29, address: Orbita-4 Microdistrict, 10;
• Library Branch No. 45, address: Auezov District, Mamyr-7 Microdistrict, 8a.

For more information, you can contact the indicated branches or call the contact number +7 (727) 338-77-25 listed on the library website