Library Services for Persons with Disabilities

If you have students with a disabilities of any kind, you may wish to encourage them to come speak with us about how we can assist them in making use of the resources and services of the Libraries. We're here to help! Find out more about what York University Libraries' Disability Services can do for your students by clicking on the Library Users with Disabilities link under SERVICES on the Libraries' home page (http://www.library.yorku.ca). Here you can find information about physical access to the various libraries and facilitated services offered to library users with special needs, such as our adaptive equipment room, special computer workstation features, transcription services, and retrieval of library materials.

The Libraries also offer reference assistance for users with special needs, both online through the Ask a Librarian chat reference service or in person by appointment with a reference librarian. Appointments may be scheduled through Tina McColl (see contact information below). And remember, we can better assist those with special needs if your specific needs are known to us.

For more information and assistance regarding library services for persons with disabilities, contact Tina McColl, Coordinator of Library Services to Persons with Special Needs, Scott Circulation at (416)736-2100 ext. 88877 or tmccoll@yorku.ca.

Transcription Services

Disability Services offers a transcription service to offer print material in alternate formats for print-disabled students who are registered with a number of campus service providers (see http://www.studentaffairs.yorku.ca/able/index.htm).

In order to arrange for transcribed materials for a student, Disability Services requires a copy of the required reading list for the course and a course outline or syllabus. Please note that transcription can be a lengthy process: the production of a course kit into Braille can take as long as four months and a four hundred page text book transcribed to four track audio tape may take three months to complete.

If you should be contacted by Disability Services requesting a list of required readings for students in your course, please remember that the information is needed as soon as possible, and ideally well in advance of the beginning of the course, to allow sufficient time for transcription of readings so that students have their readings at the time they need to be using them in the course.

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