People with Disabilities

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ALA's Office for Literacy and Outreach Services (OLOS) provides resources to library and information workers who serve traditionally underrepresented groups. These groups include people with disabilities, among others. The OLOS website gathers resources from OLOS programs, and other units of ALA.

Standards

Bibliography

Church, Jennifer, Sharon Drouin, and Katherine Rankin. "Electronic resources on disabilities: A wealth of information on topics from jobs to recreation," C&RL News, February 2000, Vol. 61 No. 2.

Rhea Joyce Rubin. Planning for Library Services to People with Disabilities. Chicago: American Library Association, 2001. (ASCLA Changing Horizons Series)

Blogs and other online resources

Selection Resources

Specific Disabilities

Blind

The Association of Cooperative and Specialized Library Agencies (ASCLA, a division of ALA) includes Libraries Serving Special Populations Section (LSSPS).

Revised Standards and Guidelines of Service for the Library of Congress Network of Libraries for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. Chicago, ASCLA, 2005. This publication presents standards and guidelines of service for day-to-day operation of LC/NLS network library services for people who are blind or physically handicapped. The standards are crafted to represent a level of excellence that this population deserves and to which all network libraries can aspire.

Library of Congress. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS)

Deaf

The Association of Cooperative and Specialized Library Agencies (ASCLA, a division of ALA) includes Libraries Serving Special Populations Section (LSSPS). Within that group, there is the Library Service to People Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing Forum with links to the following resources for librarians:

  • Communication Issues
  • Publishers and Vendors of Books, Videos, and CD-ROMs
  • Collection Recommendations
  • Books with Deaf Characters or by Deaf Authors
  • Gallaudet University Library Deaf-Related Online Resources

Guidelines for Library and Information Services for the American Deaf Community, edited by Martha L. Goddard. Chicago, ASCLA, 1996.

The Red Notebook is a starting point for libraries to look up for information regarding the deaf community and library services.

Deaf America Reads is a two-year program sponsored by the National Literary Society of the Deaf (NLSD), a reading promotion partner of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress. This is a "One Book" Reading Promotion Project called "Deaf America Reads" and runs from March 13, 2008-March 13, 2010. The book selected for "one book" is Moments of Truth: Robert R. Davila, the Story of a Deaf Leader, by Harry G. Lang, Oscar P. Cohen and Joseph E. Fischgrund (Rochester, NY: RIT Press, 2007.) The program purpose is to broaden and deepen an appreciation of reading and to compel the national deaf community to share experience while reading the same book.

The Friends of Libraries for Deaf Action (FOLDA) site also includes

The National Association of the Deaf site includes sections on legal rights (captioning, housing, employment, etc.) and advocacy issues (air travel, education, infant screening, etc.).

Stories by Hand

Learning Disabilities

Roads To Learning: Final Report, 1996-2001 Roads To Learning: The Public Libraries' Learning Disabilities Initiative was a grant project administered from 1996 to 2001 by the Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), and funded by a series of grants from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation. The primary goal of the project was to provide information about learning disabilities to the general public through public libraries, while increasing the capacity of public libraries to serve their communities in this area.
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