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AXSLIB-L on [email protected] Disability Access to Libraries
or LISTSERV@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Project EASI, Equal Access to Software and Information, has just
started a new electronic discussion list, AXSLIB-L, on disability
access to libraries. Dick Banks from U. Wisconsin at Stout will be
its moderator.
Anyone wanting to join the list or get further information about it
should contact Dick rbanks@xxxxxxxxxxx (or [email protected]).
EASI is starting the list to:
1. provide a forum to share questions and answers about how to make
libraries more accessible.
2. provide a platform from which to reach libraries which are not yet
considering seriously the question of access for users with
disabilities.
3. provide a platform from which to lobby vendors of electronic
library services to create tools that are already highly accessible.
4. encourage electronic networks and network information services to
make their facilities as accessible as possible to users with
disabilities.
5. create and provide services to assist libraries and information
providers with resources to assist them in becoming more disability
accessible.
EASI, Equal Access to Software and Information, is a EUIT
(Educational Uses of Information Technology) program and thus part of
EDUCOM which, itself, is a consortium of colleges, universities and
computer and information vendors. While EASI has a primary focus on
the needs of college and university students, and while this focus
may shape some of our directions, accessible libraries are accessible
libraries whether public, private or educational. The personal and
technical solutions will usually be generic. We believe all groups
can learn from one another, and the primary function of this
discussion list is sharing and learning. Experts in this field are
also novices because it is all changing so rapidly. EASI does not
come with solutions but rather with resources and an eagerness to
serve.
The print handicapped have the possibility of making ready use of
libraries for the first time. Mobility impaired persons have the
possibility of making use of libraries without travel. It is
important that these new electronic services be built from the ground
up with access awareness rather than having to become modified later.
Please join us in this important task.
Norman Coombs
Chair, Project EASI
Professor of History
Rochester Institute of Technology.
nrcgsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Dick Banks
AXSLIB-L moderator
Adaptive Technologist
Library Learning Center
University of Wisconsin-Stout
rbanks@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Subject: NEW: AXSLIB-L - Library Access List
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AXSLIB-L on [email protected] Disability Access to Libraries
or LISTSERV@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Project EASI, Equal Access to Software and Information, has just
started a new electronic discussion list, AXSLIB-L, on disability
access to libraries. Dick Banks from U. Wisconsin at Stout will be
its moderator.
Anyone wanting to join the list or get further information about it
should contact Dick rbanks@xxxxxxxxxxx (or [email protected]).
EASI is starting the list to:
1. provide a forum to share questions and answers about how to make
libraries more accessible.
2. provide a platform from which to reach libraries which are not yet
considering seriously the question of access for users with
disabilities.
3. provide a platform from which to lobby vendors of electronic
library services to create tools that are already highly accessible.
4. encourage electronic networks and network information services to
make their facilities as accessible as possible to users with
disabilities.
5. create and provide services to assist libraries and information
providers with resources to assist them in becoming more disability
accessible.
EASI, Equal Access to Software and Information, is a EUIT
(Educational Uses of Information Technology) program and thus part of
EDUCOM which, itself, is a consortium of colleges, universities and
computer and information vendors. While EASI has a primary focus on
the needs of college and university students, and while this focus
may shape some of our directions, accessible libraries are accessible
libraries whether public, private or educational. The personal and
technical solutions will usually be generic. We believe all groups
can learn from one another, and the primary function of this
discussion list is sharing and learning. Experts in this field are
also novices because it is all changing so rapidly. EASI does not
come with solutions but rather with resources and an eagerness to
serve.
The print handicapped have the possibility of making ready use of
libraries for the first time. Mobility impaired persons have the
possibility of making use of libraries without travel. It is
important that these new electronic services be built from the ground
up with access awareness rather than having to become modified later.
Please join us in this important task.
Norman Coombs
Chair, Project EASI
Professor of History
Rochester Institute of Technology.
nrcgsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Dick Banks
AXSLIB-L moderator
Adaptive Technologist
Library Learning Center
University of Wisconsin-Stout
rbanks@xxxxxxxxxxx