Instructional Materials and Resource Center

The Instructional Materials and Resource Center (IMRC) provides reading materials in alternate formats such as Braille, Large Print, and Audio. The IMRC also maintains depositories of braille and large print books and instructional equipment including assistive technology.

The materials are primarily used for educational and job-related purposes and are provided to the Division's consumers through their Service Case Workers such as an Itinerant Teacher or a Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor. Requests from outside agencies and businesses are processed as production resources allow.

Requests for Material are filled on one of three ways:

• Loaning Materials from one of the Depositories
• Purchase is made from a Vendor
• Produced in-house

Materials that are produced in-house are made possible through he efforts of agency staff, volunteers, and the Men With A Message Braille Program located at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center.

Men With A Message is a cooperative program run jointly between the Division for the Visually Impaired and the Department of Correction. The program employs Braillists (each certified by the Library of Congress) and a Large Print Producer.