On the other hand...

I was a direct care giver to three men with Cerebral Palsy who are bound to
electric wheelchairs.   They live IN the community, only recently having moved
out of a large institution where they lived for years and years.

One of the first places I took them was the library.  Guess what the first
thing said to me by the staff?  "Sign them up for books by mail."

Instead of spending gobs of money that chains disabled people to their rooms
and homes and computers, money should be spent on wheelchair accessibility at
the library itself.  I took  them back there every week, just to show those
librarians that disabled people will be in their faces, and deserve human
treatment.

Disabled people may be unsightly to librarians, but they have every right to
GO TO the library instead of being burrowed into their homes by huge mailings
and tapes and books.  This whole trend is ridiculous.  Computers should help
disabled people to be serviced at the same locations that non-disabled people
are.  Please consider this perspective seriously!!