Regular stops are made by Traveling Library Center (TLC) vans at housing projects, nursing homes, retirement homes and child care facilities throughout King County outside the city of Seattle.  
Annotated lists of staff-selected large print books are available.  
Techlab mobile classroom travels to community, youth and senior centers.  
The Bellevue, Bothell, Burien, Federal Way, Kent and Shoreline branches have a specially adapted computer which magnifies the library system's computerized catalog and which also has a synthesizer that can "read" the computer screens to you.  
The Traveling Library Center also has access to materials in many languages. 
Printed materials may be available by request in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Marathi, Punjabi, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.

Outreach Services offered at King County Library System

Coordinates library van service to housing projects, nursing and retirement homes and homebound patrons throughout King County outside the city of Seattle. 
Assistive technology equipment is available.

Programs that provide people with visual impairments or other disabilities that limit their ability to read print material with access to recorded tapes, readings from current popular publications or a volunteer who reads for them. Included are radio reading services which offer programming that features highlights from national newspapers, articles from periodicals, or novels and other special interest reading material; telephone reading services which provide access to prerecorded material via touch-tone telephone; and programs that arrange for a call or visit by a volunteer reader.

Reading Services for People With Disabilities

Large motor vehicles especially equipped to carry books and other library materials that travel to communities which do not have immediate access to a nearby library.

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Outreach Services offered at King County Library System