Communication Center for the Blind

Purpose
The Communication Center serves as a public library for Minnesotans who are blind or have visual or physical impairments. Through transcription and reading services, customers have access to the same print media as sighted Minnesotans.

Customers and Services
The Communication Center provides audio, print, and digital communication through state staff and 680+ volunteers. It lends transcribed textbooks and leisure-reading books; lends and repairs special radio receivers, flash and cassette players; and transcribes vocational and informational materials for individuals, businesses, and organizations. The Center broadcasts a 24-hour radio reading service through a closed-circuit radio network and provides two 24-hour audio newspaper-reading services accessed via phone: Dial-In News and the National Federation of the Blind-Newsline for the Blind®.

Measures - Reporting period is state fiscal year (SFY), July 1 - June 30

More DEED measures: Uniform Program Accountability Measures

Funding Source and Appropriation/Allocation (in thousands)

Statutory Authority 
-- Minn. Stat., Chap. 248; Minn. Rules, Chap. 3325; U.S. Code, Title 2, Chap. 5

Contact Information
Richard Strong, Director
Phone: 651.649.5475 or toll-free: 800.652.9000; Fax: 651.649.5927; TTY: 888.665.3276

This information current as of December 2011.