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Managing Data in Arizona

Submitted by Jason LeDuc, Director of Sales, Counting Opinions, jleduc@countingopinions.com   The Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records is a multi-faceted organization with six divisions. The Library Development Division provides consulting and best practices services, continuing education, and summer reading and early literacy programs, as well as administering LSTA grant funding and collecting public...

Project ENABLE: Effective Library and Information Services to Students with Disabilities

Submitted by Jessica Stewart, Master’s Degree Candidate, Library and Information Science-School Media   Librarians who are well trained in providing high level services to their patrons with disabilities results in patrons who will have access to information resources and technologies for learning equal to their non-disabled peers. The ultimate consequence to these patrons is the...

New Rules for Web Accessibility

Submitted by Carrie Banks, Supervising Librarian, The Child’s Place for Children with Special Needs/Kidsmobile, Brooklyn Public Library   The Office of Budget and Management has issued new proposed rules for web accessibility.  Please see the link below for additional information. http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaViewRule?pubId=201210&RIN=1190-AA65 Along the same lines, Raising the Floor is a great source for information on...

Everyday Assistive Technology on the Go: Identifying Characteristic of Popular Apple Apps for People with Disabilities

Submitted by Christina C. Wray, Librarian, Center for Disability Information and Referral, Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, Indiana University, Bloomington, ccwray@indiana.edu   With the advent of the iPhone in July of 2007, the idea of what mobile computing is and could be was forever changed. Since that time, not only have the choices of...

New Website for Library Services for Youth in Custody

Submitted by Camden Tadhg, Acquisitions & Youth Institutions Consultant, Institutional Library Development, Colorado State Library Do you serve youth in detention and correctional facilities? Are you interested in working with this highly-disenfranchised and incredibly rewarding population? Then check out the newly launched website of Library Services for Youth in Custody at www.youthlibraries.org ! All across...