Instructional Resource Center (IRC)

The Instructional Resource Center (IRC) at NMSBVI’s main campus in Alamogordo serves as a statewide lending resource for braille and large print textbooks, as well as other specialized equipment used by students with visual impairments. central lending library for all school districts in New Mexico distributor of American Printing House for the Blind (APH) materials source for braille transcription needs for students statewide NMSBVI’s Braille Production Department employs three certified Braille transcribers. The department fills requests to transcribe textbooks, documents, classroom learning materials, literary books (with publisher permission), and tactile graphics. All of these projects are extremely time consuming and labor-intensive. Textbooks are prioritized above other projects and all projects are scheduled on a first come-first served basis.