Tapes for Blind

Your article (Jan. 29), “Blind Couple See Only Good . . .” was most uplifting, and some such program should be encouraged in all prisons to restore self-esteem among inmates and at the same time help the handicapped.

I was disappointed that, whereas you mentioned the National Library Service and the Library of Congress, you did not mention Recording for the Blind, which is a national organization with 29 studios across the country, including Los Angeles (since 1951), Santa Barbara, Palo Alto and Pomona in California.

Our master tape library headquarters (in Princeton, N.J.) contains more than 65,000 titles, and 5,000 volunteers across the nation steadily add to these recordings each year. The service is entirely free of charge to visually handicapped borrowers and is supported by private donations.

ANNE F. HEINEMAN

Los Angeles

Heineman is former chairman of the Los Angeles unit of Recording for the Blind and a member of the groups’s national board of directors.