Transcription Services

The York University Libraries offers transcription services (print material in alternate format) for print disabled students who have registered with the Office for Persons with Disabilities, Psychiatric Disabilities Program or the various service providers on campus.

Transcription services are facilitated through the Disability Services unit, Scott Library, Room CS133. A copy of the required reading list, course outline or syllabus must be obtained from you, the instructor, to begin the lengthy transcription process. The production of a course kit into Braille can take as long as four months! A four hundred page text book transcribed to four track audio tape may take three months to complete. So…when you are contacted by Disability Services requesting required readings, please remember that we need the information from you as early as June, 2004 to allow sufficient time for transcription to alternate formats by the commencement of fall classes.

If you need more information on transcription services, please contact Tina McColl, Coordinator of Library Services to Persons with Special Needs, Disability Services, Scott Library (telephone 416-736-2100 x 88877, email tmccoll@yorku.ca).

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