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The Bureau of Braille and Talking Books Library Services of Daytona Beach is located at 421 Platt Street on the Daytona Beach campus of the Florida Division of Blind Services. The library is a regional branch of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, a division of the Library of Congress and, as such, it provides materials in alternate format to those who have difficulty reading books in standard format. All library services are provided free of charge to eligible users. The Braille and Talking Books Library of Daytona Beach is the largest library of its kind in the U.S.

History
The original library collection was begun whenever it was begun. It maintained a collection of braille books as well as braille music for the use of the students. In 1931 the Pratt-Smoot Act was passed and eighteen Braille and Talking Book Libraries were set up across the country (nineteen including the Library of Congress).

Services
The library offers braille books and Talking Books to eligible residents of the State of Florida. Although the library offers these services to the residents of other states via inter-branch cooperation, out of state residents must sign up for services through each state's individual regional library. The library also offers the use of the Newsline service (a service run by the National Federation of the Blind) as well as downloadable audio books to its Florida patrons only. The library offers a new program to distribute currency readers. These are pocket-sized devices which scan and audibly identify the value of paper currency for visually impaired patrons.

Talking Books
Something about Daytona's original library consisting of Talking Books only in a (very very) brief historical note, with emphasis on what the formats, equipment, and accessories are offered. Number and nature of the volumes that the library now offers.

Recording Studio
The recording studio housed within BBTBL's Library records and produces digital audio books—local titles for its main collection that are then shared with the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and custom audio books for anything from a student’s math textbook to narration of USEFUL DOCUMENTS, such as bus schedules, made readable for customers who are blind or otherwise print disabled.

Braille Books
Something (very very brief) about history of the inclusion of Braille into the collection. A (very very brief) mention of the controversy surrounding the future of braille and a pro/con discussion of its importance/obsolescence. Number and nature of collection.

Something about the proportion of Braille to Talking Books. Something about the future of braille.

Administration
The library is one of fifty-six regional branch libraries of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped and as such is administrated via the Florida State Department of Education's Division of Blind Services. The library is subject to the rules and regulations governing all such bodies. The library resides on the Daytona Beach campus of the Florida Division of Blind Services.

Awards
In Some Time in the Past BBTBL was honored with whatever honorarium via whoever was honoring the library.