Program areas at JBI
Libraries: the Jbi library includes a broad spectrum of jewish-interest books in audio, large print and braille, all produced in-house and distributed free of charge directly to our patrons' doorsteps; after enjoying the materials, patrons return them, postage free. We offer more than 13,000 circulating audiobooks and several thousand braille titles and large print materials encompassing fiction, history, biography, short stories, periodicals, humor, liturgical texts, poetry, jewish studies, memoirs, cookbooks, and more, with new titles added regularly.
Educational and cultural programs: Jbi offers programming to enhance connection to the jewish community, including lectures, concerts, and virtual and in-person programming, such as book groups, poetry workshops, author events, learning series, and more.
Outreach: Jbi provides various special programs and projects that enhance connection to the jewish community. We offer compilations of jewish-interest articles from a variety of jewish and and secular news sources including: Jbi voices in audio format, the jewish braille review in hard copy braille and braille-ready format (brf), Jbi russian voices in russian-language audio format, the Jbi cultural series in audio format, featuring concerts, lectures and dramatic reading. We also produce an annual jewish calendar in large print and braille, in english and russian.
Periodicals: Jbi offers a variety of Jbi periodicals in audio and braille format which are unavailable otherwise to the visually impaired. These include hadassah and lilith magazine, Jbi voices-a compilation of articles from a global selection of newspapers and journals, and also include Jbi's cultural series.