How our libraries support people with sensory needs and disabilities

We have a home delivery service, so you can get library items delivered to your home. We also have audiobooks and books in large print, and all our libraries are wheelchair accessible.

Accessible services and resources

Brighton & Hove Libraries has signed up to the Age and Dementia Friendly Organisation pledge to provide a welcoming and accessible service to all. 

All Brighton & Hove Libraries are wheelchair accessible. Assistance dogs are welcome in our libraries. We offer virtual tours of our libraries to help you familiarise yourself with library layouts and facilities Brighton & Hove libraries virtual tours before you visit.

We provide adjustable desks and accessible keyboards and mice for pcs in all libraries. 

For readers who are blind or visually impaired

We offer books in Large Print and audiobooks. If you are blind or visually impaired, ask for an Access library card, which offers a longer loan period and free audiobook loans and reservations.

You can also join our free e-library to obtain e-books, newspapers and magazines which allow you to adjust the font size to suit your needs and e-audiobooks if you prefer to listen: 

For readers with sensory needs, learning difficulties or cognitive impairment

We offer dyslexia friendly books for adults and children.

We offer a Bag Books collection of multi-sensory books for people with sensory needs or profound or multiple learning disabilities. Bag Books are available at Jubilee Library and can be used by community groups to deliver storytelling sessions. 

If you have learning difficulties, severe memory issues or cognitive impairment which means that you are unable to plan or organise tasks, ask for an Exempt library card, which will support you to use the library.

For more information, contact Jubilee Library.

Jubilee Library
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For readers who can’t get to a library

Home delivery service

We offer a free home delivery service to residents who are unable to get to our libraries owing to health or mobility issues, disability or caring commitments. 

Contact the home delivery service

Libraries home delivery service
More information about Libraries home delivery service

Book Box service

We offer a free quarterly Book Box service to residential units and care homes whose residents are unable to get to a library. Collections include Large Print and standard print books, talking books on CD, jigsaw puzzles and reminiscence items.

Contact the Book Box service

Libraries Book Box service

You can also reserve items via our online catalogue Home | Brighton and Hove Libraries and use our e-library services Borrow electronic books and audiobooks.