By Donna Mesker, Treatment Mall Director, Evansville State Hospital, Evansville, IN Evansville (In.) State Hospital has provided services for persons with mental illness since 1890. In February 2010, the hospital began “Chapter Challenge”—a book club that not only promotes reading as a daily activity for hospital clients, but addresses a number of client needs and...

By Eusebia Milanes, library associate, and Carrie Banks, senior supervising librarian, Brooklyn Public Library The Child’s Place for Children with Special Needs at Brooklyn Public Library recently began its first bilingual English/Spanish programming at the Sunset Park and Red Hook Libraries. Club Nuestro Jardin (Our Garden Club) is a literature-based gardening program for children with...

By Alice L. Hagemeyer, MLS Thanks to the extraordinary efforts of advocates across the country and in Washington, DC, the Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology (COAT) and other disability organizations have successfully secured a monumental step for Americans in accessible technology.

By Sherrie Kristin, Acquisitions, The Library, Purdue University Calumet It is hard to imagine a library where someone is unable to read the great works in literature or fiction, to take advantage of the wealth of information in databases and journals or to research and write a paper independently. But for some students at Purdue...