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That All May Read
The book is intended to provide an overview of the needs of blind and physically handicapped individuals who are unable to use print resources and to describe practices designed to meet those needs. An initial section reviews the history of library services to this population, noting federal legislation and agencies which serve them. A detailed history of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped is included. Part 2 includes papers on users (results of questionnaires, interviews, and site visits), materials and publishers (including braille, large type materials, and music services); reading aids and devices; state programs from the perspective of a state libraria...
Library Resources for the Blind & Physically Handicapped
A directory of NLS network libraries and machine-lending agencies.
Speaking Out
In this collection of interviews, the outgrowth of a symposium held in San Francisco, California, in July, 1981, librarians, students, and users of library services for blind and physically handicapped individuals express their thoughts and feelings about their experiences and about the attitudes they have encountered. Handicapped library users were selected on the basis of their frequent use of the subregional library in San Francisco, their particular life situations, and their willingness to participate in a taped interview in their homes. All of the patrons interviewed are visually impaired. Individual interviews with 15 members of this group and interviews with a group of high school st...
R is for Reading
Research into library service to blind and physically impaired children in the United States with recommendations for change.
Standards of Service for the Library of Congress Networks of Libraries for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Standards of Service for the Library of Congress network of libraries for the section for Blind and Physically Handicapped.
Planning Barrier-free Libraries
How to establish a new building or renovation program for libraries serving blind or physically handicapped people.
When You Can't Believe Your Eyes
This book was first projected in 2004, when Author Hannah Fairbairn was teaching interpersonal skills at the Carroll Center for the Blind in Newton, Massachusetts. The experiences of her adult students—and her own experience of sight lost—convinced her that everyone losing vision needs access to good information about the process of adjustment to losing sight and practical ways to use assertive speech. When You Can’t Believe Your Eyes is intended for anyone going through vision loss, their friends, and families. It will inform readers how to get expert professional help, face the trauma of loss, and navigate the world using speech more than sight. Each of the twelve chapters in the boo...
