Open Forum: Revision of Standards and Guidelines for Library of Congress Network of Libraries for the Blind and Physically Handicapped

Everyone is invited to attend a public open forum about the current project to review and revise the Standards and Guidelines of Service for the NLS Network of Libraries for the Blind and Physically Handicapped.

The open forum will occur on Monday, June 28, 2010 from 10:30 a.m. to noon Eastern Daylight Time in Room 141 of the Washington Convention Center, located at 801 Mount Vernon Place NW in Washington, DC.

The Washington Convention Center is located at the “Mount Vernon Square 7th Street – Convention Center” stop on the Green and Yellow Lines of the Metro Subway operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. Information about the accessibility of this transit system can be found at the following URL:

http://www.wmata.com/accessibility/

Room 141 is on street level near the corner of 7th and L Streets.

In 2005 the Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), published the Revised Standards and Guidelines of Service for the Library of Congress Network of Libraries for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (LC/NLS): 2005. The current process of reviewing and revising the standards will conclude in mid 2011. Another public open forum is being planned for January 2011 in San Diego. Details will follow.

For more information about this public open forum, or about the entire project to review and revise the Standards and Guidelines of Service, please contact the project director:

Tom Peters
TAP Information Services
1606 South Stillhouse Road
Oak Grove MO 64075
phone 816.616.6746
email tpeters@tapinformation.com

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