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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