EASI highlights libraries and patrons with disabilities!


Fifth Annual Accessing Higher Ground Conference:
Assistive Technology and Accessible Media
in Higher Education

Includes Special EASI Mini Institute on Library Access

University of Colorado–Boulder Campus

November 6 - 8, 2002

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Ken Rutherford,
Co-Founder of Landmine Survivors Network

EASI Mini Institute Highlights

EASI will offer a series of special sessions on library access and access 
to library information systems. EASI special sessions include:

Strategies for Creating a Barrier-Free Virtual Library Environment, Axel 
Schmetzke, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

Commercial Library Databases and Users with Visual Disabilities: Are 
Vendors Committed to Accessibility?, Sue Byerley & Mary Beth Chambers, 
CU-Colorado Springs


A Report on the Virtual Reference Environment, Now I See It, Now You 
Don't:  a report on the Virtual Reference Environment, Bryna Coonin, East 
Carolina University

Starting a National Center for Accessible E-learning, East Carolina 
University Norm Coombs & Dick Banks, EASI

A for Accessibility: Ensuring LIS Education for Diversity and Equity of 
Access, Ellen Perlow, Texas Woman's University

Library Database Accessibility – A Usability Study, Ron Stewart, Oregon 
State University

For the full list of over 40 conference sessions and hands-on workshops, 
visit the AHG Website at www.colorado.edu/sacs/ATconference.
Phone: 303-492-8671 (v/tty), e-mail: [log in to unmask]


Norman Coombs, Ph.D.
Cell (949) 922-5992
Professor Emeritus, Rochester Institute of Technology
http://www.rit.edu/~nrcgsh
CEO, EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information)
        http://www.rit.edu/~easi