Dear Ellen,

I am not sure about other librarians who have difficulty seeing, but I do
not have a visual difference.  I am blind!

Valerie Lewis
Access and Assistive Technology Specialist
Suffolk Cooperative Library System
Talking Books Plus

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Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 9:20 PM
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Subject: Librarians with Vision Differences


Dear Everyone:

FYI:  The webpage "http://twu.edu/~s_perlow/lspvpdf.html" cited in a
previous
note posted on this list was set up as a preliminary demonstration page [not
currently maintained or up-to-date] for the

"Library Services to People With Physical or Visual Differences Forum"
[LSPVPDF] of the Library Services to Special Populations Section [LSSPS], a
section of the Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies
[ASCLA] Division of the American Library Association [ALA].

Interested parties should refer to the ASCLA Website/ LSSPS page  -
http://www.ala.org/ascla/lssps/index.html    and the entire comprehensive
and
accessible - thanks to ASCLA webmaster Donavan Vicha - ASCLA website at
http://www.ala.org/ascla/ for a variety of up-to-date resources and contact
information for accessibility advocates.

ASCLA - affectionally called the Awesome Super Cool Library Association -
http://www.ala.org/ascla/ - is the American Library Association's Division
that
is devoted to accessibility advocacy, the ALA Division whose members include
among the  finest accessibility advocates in the world.   ASCLA was the
division of ALA that sponsored the Roads to Learning Initiative
(http://www.ala.org/ascla/rtl_final_report.html), wrote ALA's Accessibility
Policy (http://www.ala.org/ascla/access_policy.html), and since 2001 has
sponsored the ALA Accessibility Pavilion at ALA annual conferences. ASCLA is
the Division that publishes numerous outstanding publications and guidelines
about accessibility, including the Interface newsletter, and that hosts
numerous conference programs on accessibility and equity of access.

ASCLA is the ALA component that is the proud sponsor since June 27, 1999 of
the
independently-funded ASCLA Century Scholarship Diversity Initiative -
http://www.ala.org/ascla/centuryscholarship.html - ALA's premier effort to
realize its goal of diversity within the profession by recruiting into the
library and information science [LIS] profession people who represent the
universal diversity of doing things differently. The ASCLA Century
Scholarship
already boasts 2 outstanding Century Scholars  (Rebecca Van Scyoc-2000-,May
2002 MLS) and Simon Healey, MLS (2001). The name of our 2002 Century Scholar
will be announced soon.  Our 2002 Century Scholar will receive his/her ASCLA
Century Scholarship at the ASCLA President's Program at the ALA Annual
Conference in Atlanta.

If you are a [potential] librarian or information specialist and you care
about
equity of access/accessibility,  and the interrelated principles of the LIS
profession - and of ALA: diversity, intellectual freedom, 21st century
literacy, education
and continuous learning, then you need to join and become active in ASCLA
and
ASCLA's LSSPS Section: NOW.

To Join ASCLA - the Awesome Super Cool Library Association - which includes
a
host of specialists as members - from independent librarians, prison
librarians, consultants, multitype/consortia librarians, and state
librarians
(all accessibility advocates par excellence),
please visit: http://www.ala.org/ascla/org.html#howtojoin

or call toll-free: 1-800-545-2433 ext. 4398; TDD: 1-888-814-7692

See "y'all" in Atlanta June 14-18th at ALA Annual.

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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 1st
See Also: ALA HRDR Page: http://www.ala.org/hrdr/scholarship.html
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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