Service for people with visual and reading disabilities

We provide nationwide library services for people with visual impairments, dyslexia or others who are unable to read printed text due to disability. Nota Service's mission is stated in Royal Danish Library's appropriation in the Finance Act and in the Library Services Act. You can become a user of Royal Danish Library's Nota Service if you have a documented visual or reading disability, or if you teach pupils and students who are users of Royal Danish Library's Nota Service.

In agreement with the National Agency for Education and Quality, we provide special educational support to pupils and students in the form of specially designed teaching and study materials for:

• Pupils with dyslexia in primary school
• Pupils with visual and reading disabilities in upper secondary education
• Students with visual and reading disabilities in higher education

We also manage and implement a special grant with the aim of increasing media accessibility for the blind and visually impaired.

Technologies and licenses

Royal Danish Library's Nota Service wishes to thank the following companies for use of their technology:

• AudioWatermarking.com and their AWT2 module, used to create very robust audio watermarks.
• Google's Flutter framework, which is used for the development of our app.
• The DAISY organisation's tools for production and distribution of Daisy-format books.
• EDRLab's Readium components, LCP-protection tech and reading-app Thorium Reader.

Braille music

We have digitised over 3,000 braille music titles, which we make available to users worldwide.

As a Danish user of braille music, you can download braille music directly from our collection. If you are a foreign user of braille music, please contact us:

Tel: +45 39134600

Braille music for many different needs

In the collection, you will find, among other things, braille music for educational use in categories such as instrumental schools, ear training and music theory. There is also braille music for instrumental and vocal works; mainly for organ, piano, orchestral instruments, accordion, guitar and chimes. Finally, there is also braille music for chamber music works - everything from duo to sinfonietta, symphony orchestra and mixed choir.

Not suitable for all printers

Please note that the braille music files are not suitable for all printers.

This is because the digital bullets are scanned from printed bullets and have retained the layout of the printed original - including the length of the lines and the number of lines on the page.

Three different formats

The braille music files can be downloaded in three formats:

• OctoBraille 1252, which is adapted for Windows
• Braille ASCII, which follows the American standard, which is a DOS format
• Unicode Braille, which uses the Unicode standard.

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