How to borrow from us

Before you start — general information

All Aotearoa New Zealand school students who struggle to use a regular print book may be eligible to use our resources.

Read about our service and what you can borrow

1. Register your school with the Print Disabilities Service

To access our resources, your school must be registered. We require one person from the school to request and manage the loans.

Your principal's name and email is required when applying for the Wheelers ePlatform service.

No medical certificate or formal assessment is required. By registering, you're acknowledging these resources will only be used by students who struggle to use regular print resources.

It's free to borrow physical audiobooks from us. It's also free to borrow eBooks and eAudios from Wheelers using the Print Disabilities Service ePlatform.

• If you want to access our Wheelers ePlatform, also read and accept the ePlatform terms and conditions.

• We'll email you to confirm your registration.

Register for our service

2. Choose your borrowing option, select titles

Read about our borrowing options

Use the online form to ask us to select physical titles for you or to request up to 5 titles you've chosen from our catalogue.

• To request more than 5 items, email your titles to us.

• If the title you want isn't listed in the Print Disabilities Collection, tell us and we'll try and buy it. Email your suggestion to us.

Request physical resources

Students select and download their own titles from the Wheelers ePlatform. eAudios have a headphone icon on the cover. Greyed-out titles are currently on loan.

3. Receive your loan

Keep the box and packaging material to return items in.

You will be emailed a list of titles issued. Tip: For large loans, copy the table from the email and put it into Excel. Then you can sort the list by title, author or call number.

How to renew items

4. Return your loan

Return your audiobooks to the National Library in Wellington. A return address label is supplied with every box.

Your school pays the cost of returning audiobooks to us. You can use CourierPost special Services to Schools' rates to do this.

Return books using CourierPost special rates

Post to:
Print Disabilities Service
National Library of New Zealand
Dockway 1
Aitken Street
Thorndon
Wellington 6011

How to change or cancel your registration

If you've already registered, you can update your details using the registration form.

You can cancel at any time. If you want to cancel your registration, email us. Let us know:

• what you want to cancel (remember to include your school name)

• if you have Wheelers ePlatform logins you no longer need — we have a limited number of logins so someone else can have access to the ePlatform if you no longer want it.

Make sure you've returned all physical audiobooks to the Print Disabilities Service.

Resources for further support

Here are some organisations that offer support to the print-disabled.

• Blind Low Vision NZ — sign up as an associate member to access their digital services.

• Dyslexia Foundation of New Zealand (DFNZ)

Adults with a print disability

The Print Disabilities Service also lends audiobooks to adults through participating public libraries.

Find out more: Print Disabilities Collection.

Any questions?

Contact us if you have any questions about the resources available for students who struggle to use print. We're always happy to hear from you.

• Email: audiobook.request@dia.govt.nz

• Phone: 04 474 3001

• Freephone: 0800 474 300 — ask for Print Disabilities Service, extension 3001 (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm)