Are you and your library ready for the questions from your share of
the 39 million Americans who have learning disabilities?  How about
the ones their families, bosses, spouses and service providers need
answered?  Do you need some money to jump-start a resource development
idea? Come find out about some solutions at "Local Partnerships:
Libraries and Learning Disabilities."

Audrey J. Gorman, director of Roads To Learning, will describe the
"Local LD Partnership Initiative" launched last summer with the
International Dyslexia Association and the Learning Disabilities
Association of America.  Its purpose is to help form partnerships
between libraries and LD organizations that will ensure local
resources tailored to the needs of the community.

The highlight of the program will be "Partnerships in New Jersey:
Ridgewood Roads To Learning."  Find out how over $8,500 was raised to
launch a collection of resources on special needs.  Hear Susan Doyle,
past president of the Special Education Home & Schools Association and
chair of the Library Roads To Learning Initiative, and Nancy K.
Greene, director of the Ridgewood (NJ) Public Library discuss the
kickoff during National Library Week and other promotion and marketing
ideas.  Ask them questions that will help make your own ideas
reality.

Audrey Gorman will finish up with a sampler of other partnerships
around the country and a give-and-take session about "LD Action for
Libraries."


Please join us at the fourth annual Roads To Learning program at the
ALA Annual conference.

Local Partnerships:
Libraries and Learning Disabilities

1999 ALA Annual Conference
New Orleans, LA

Sunday, June 27, 1999
2:00 * 4:00 PM

Ernest N. Morial Convention Center Room #227

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