Dear Accessibility Advocates:

If you missed ALA 2001, or did not hear the great news, ALA 2001 had a
stupendous ACCESSIBILITY PAVILION, in large part due to the stupendous efforts
of ASCLA's Audrey Gorman.

Unfortunately, the Accessibility Pavilion did not make a big splash among the
editors of library journals visiting the ALA exhibits (I still am unable to
comprehend why), but you can see for yourselves how stupendous the first ever
ALA Accessibility Pavilion at ALA San Francisco 2001 was on MY website - with
photos of actual live people utilizing the super duper technology - at

http://twu.edu/~s_perlow/accessibilitypavilion.html

We must advocate strongly for an even better, larger, much better publicized,
super-duper ACCESSIBILITY PAVILION at ALA 2002, right up front and center of
the Exhibit Hall  where it belongs, and  also WELL-PUBLICIZED with photos of
real live people using the technology (not just people's hands; publicized
far in advance by ALA (are you listening American Libraries?).

And Y'ALL (= us Accessibility Advocates) can make it happen.  Accessibility is
NOT just for "the accessibility market" - whatever that is (as was indicated in
the Sept. 2001 American Libraries issue),  Accessibility is about Everyone -
especially as we learned so tragically two weeks ago and as we all know
since I haven't yet met anyone getting any younger.

In your comments to ALA on ALA 2001 - be sure to emphasize the need for a
super-duper Accessibility Pavilion in Atlanta and a SUPER-DUPER ACCESSIBLE
Conference.  A for Accessibility!

Also be sure to emphasize that we need a FULLY ACCESSIBLE CONFERENCE
WEBSITE!!!!  Even for ALA Midwinter New Orleans ("Oh where, Oh where did those
ALT tags go, Oh where, Oh where could they be?" ... See:
http://alawinter.ctt-inc.com/index.html )as well as for ALA Annual
Atlanta.

ALA now has an official ALA Accessibility Policy on the books:
http://www.ala.org/ascla/access_policy.html

Let's see and experience the Accessibility Policy in action!!!!

P.S. Please start recruiting NOW for the ALA ASCLA Century Scholarship for
2002!!  http://www.ala.org/ascla/centuryscholarship.html

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Ellen Perlow
Chair, ALA ASCLA Century Scholarship Committee
The ALA ASCLA Century Scholarship Diversity Initiative
"Celebrating a New Century that Celebrates Diversity"
http://www.ala.org/ascla/centuryscholarship.html
Annual Submission Deadline: March 1
See Also: ALA HRDR Page: http://www.ala.org/hrdr/
Texas Century Scholarship: http://www.txla.org/html/awards/scholar/century.html
Have YOU recruited/applied to be a Century Scholarship applicant today?
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