New Magazine Selections for you! Mother Earth News, Indiana Preservationist, Consumer Reports, People, Midwest Living, Popular Photography, American Patchwork & Quilting; Smithsonian, Country Living, Seventeen, Country Gardens, HGTV Magazine. Magazines may be checked out for one week. We are beginning to box up books in the children’s department for our anticipated move. There will be a selection of the most popular books that can still be checked out during this process. If you have anything in particular that you are looking for this would be a good time to call and request that we hold it for you. Demolition in the children’s department will begin soon! Thank you for your patience and understanding during this process. Our new CATALOG system is Evergreen Indiana. Resident patrons now have access to materials in 108 Indiana libraries. Evergreen Indiana serves 1,048,874 patrons. Total bibliographic records in the consortium are 2,419,921 with total holdings of 6,934,057 items.
All patrons will be issued an Evergreen Indiana library card.NYPL Lion LogoYou are logged in to your accountNYPL Locator SVG IconNYPL Search SVG IconThe New York Public LibraryLocationsGet a Library CardDonateShopStroud Mansion& Elizabeth D. Walters Library900 Main Street, Stroudsburg, Pa.Open Tuesday through Friday | 10 am - 4 pmFirst and third Saturdays | 10 am - 4 pmClosed Sundays and MondaysOne-hour guided tours at 11 am & 2 pm>>> PHOTO TOURView Larger Map The American Library Association (ALA) has recognized that people with disabilities can often face obstacles to literacy, cultural inclusion and full access to education. Libraries play a big role in the lives of people who have disabilities. Libraries are another resource for enrichment of their daily lives. ADA accessibility compliance is their focus, and this is their policy: “ALA…is dedicated to eradicating inequities and improving attitudes toward and services and opportunities for people with disabilities.” The ALA’s emphasis is on ensuring people with disability enjoy equal access to library resources.
Libraries are encouraged to provide extended book loan periods, waiver of late fines, longer reserve periods and a host of other special considerations including volunteer readers and sign language interpreters. The ALA supports ADA accessibility regulations regarding accessible parking, clear paths to the library entrance along with handrails, ramps and elevators. Public conveniences such as restrooms and drinking fountains need to be up to date to or retrofitted to comply with ADA standards. Stocking accessible library materials The ALA recognizes the need to provide materials in a variety of formats for people with disabilities. Providing that the modified formats (large print books, for example) do not “fundamentally alter” the traditional services of a library, these services must be made available to patrons with disabilities. Libraries should also stock and integrate reading materials covering the spectrum of information on disability issues and services. The ALA urges libraries to work with everyone concerned (vendors, advocacy groups, people with disabilities) to plug into existing technology.
The goal is to bring library services in line with the need to accommodate a wide range of disabilities (learning, mobility, sensory, etc.). Library staffers need to be aware of how those technology resources can be used to serve their patrons more completely. Recruiting people with disabilities The ALA works with employers to hire people with disabilities as library professionals. Libraries must do everything possible to reasonably accommodate qualified people with disabilities, unless the library can show that such accommodation would impose unreasonable hardship on its normal operations. The ALA urges that graduate programs in library and information studies include training in ADA accessibility rules, current accessibility issues, the world of assistive technology as well as the needs of the students’ future patrons with disability. Access Advocates is at your service If you have experienced barriers to conveniently accessing public facilities, contact us and we’ll help you make your community ADA compliant, one building at a time.
Photo courtesy ellen forsyth, FlickrThis document was prepared by:Everyone should be able to fully participate within society, and built environment accessibility plays a crucial role in achieving this goal. An access audit is one of the first of many steps that can help to improve accessibility of the built environment.The National Disability Strategy (2004), which includes a number of sectoral plans, is a key measure taken by the Government to ensure that people with disabilities can fully participate in Irish society. The outline sectoral plan from the Department of the Environment Heritage and Local Government highlights that each Local Authority will, within six months of the approval of the plan by the Oireachtas, carry out an access audit of all public buildings, public parks, amenities and open spaces, roads and streets, pavements and pedestrian crossings, heritage sites, public libraries, polling stations and harbors within its control and identify what remedial action is necessary to make these buildings
, etc. accessible for people with disabilities.Furthermore, under the Programme for Prosperity and Fairness Agreement, the Government made a commitment that all public services would be made more accessible. The Excellence through Accessibility Award is a joint initiative between the National Disability Authority and the Department of Justice Equality and Law Reform. To receive the award organisations will be required to regularly review and if necessary develop and improve the accessibility of their built environment. For a Government Department or Agency to apply for the award, they must ensure that management has reviewed the current accessibility of their building(s) by way of an access audit.These guidelines have been designed to provide best practice advice on how to carry out an access audit. The guidelines will be of interest to all those involved in access auditing including building surveyors, architects, building designers, facility managers, occupational therapists, building control officers, local access groups and all those who deal with the construction and use of buildings.
Angela KerinsChairperson National Disability Authority1 Introduction1.1 BackgroundAn accessible built environment has been recognised as a core element of an inclusive society. An accessible environment provides citizens with autonomy and the means to pursue an active social and economic life (EC Expert Group on Accessibility, 2003).Many people with disabilities are faced with barriers that exclude them from participating as equal citizens. These barriers can be attitudinal and societal as well as physical and affect people with different impairments at different times of their lives.The case for making our society more accessible is a compelling one on many fronts. It is not only an issue of justice but it makes good business and social sense. In addition to contributing to the development of a more inclusive and equal society an accessible environment offers the following advantages:An accessible environment increases the pool of potential new workers that an employer can tap into. It also helps organisations retain existing employees who may acquire a disability;
An accessible building enables more people with disabilities to enter the premises and/or use the services;Accessibility improves overall safety of buildings, which has a direct impact on the number of accidents taking place and therefore the cost of insurance premiums;An accessible environment gives greater customer and staff satisfaction and can improve public perception and recognition of a Department or Agency.1.2 Why carry out an access audit?An access audit is one of the first of many steps that can help to improve accessibility and provides the basis for an access improvement plan or strategy (see section 6 for other steps). According to Sawyer and Bright (2004) there are a number of reasons for carrying out an audit including: legislation; funding conditions (such as Government Departments/Offices funding through the Office of Public Works' Universal Access Programme); to gather data on buildings for comparison or analysis; to check compliance with certain standards and regulations;
company policy on equal opportunities; conservation by use of historic buildings; pressure from lobby groups and awareness of particular problems.Carrying out an access audit will identify a number of features including:the current accessibility of the building/property/site;areas for improvement (e.g. no accessible car spaces in the car park or the door in the accessible toilet on the ground floor is incorrectly located and therefore the WC is inaccessible);good/bad practice in relation to facilities management that an organisation has in place; positive accessibility features (e.g. counter loop at reception, good use of lighting and colour throughout building, signage);1.3 Who are these guidelines for?This guide offers best practice advice on how to carry out an access audit. It is envisaged that these guidelines will be of interest to all those involved in access auditing including building surveyors, architects, building designers, facility managers, occupational therapists, building control officers, local access groups and all those who deal with the construction and use of buildings.