Title: That all may read :
Authors: Library of Congress.
Date: 1983
Publisher: National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress :
Physical description: vi, 518 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: Z
Abstract: Provision of library service to blind and physically handicapped individuals is an ever-developing art/science requiring a knowledge of individual needs, a mastery of information science processes and techniques, and an awareness of the plethora of available print and nonprint resources. This book is intended to bring together a composite overview of the needs of individials unable to use print resources and to describe current and historic practices designed to meet those needs. - Preface.
Contents: Preface / Frank Kurt Cylke -- Part one. History and standards / Eunice Lovejoy -- Federal legislation and agencies which serve blind and physically handicapped people / Irvin P. Schloss -- A history of the National Library Service to Blind and Handicapped Individuals -- Part two. Users / Hylda Kamisar -- Materials and publishers / Mary Jack Wintle and Catherine Archer -- Reading aids and devices / Leslie L. Clark -- State programs : a State Librarian's perspective / Anthony Miele -- The NLS Network / Karen Renninger and Thomas J. Martin -- Part three. School library media services / Ruth A. Velleman and Joan A. Miller -- Public libraries / Donna Dziedzic -- Academic library services / John Vasi -- Training and research in librarianship / Kenneth L. Ferstl and Merrillyn C. Gibson -- Part four. In other countries / M. Joy Lewis -- International cooperation / Frank Kurt Cylke -- Appendix : Free matter : nearly a century of change / Judith M. Dixon and Alfred D. Hagle.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Blind--Services for--United States.; Libraries and people with disabilities--United States.; Libraries and people with disabilities.; Libraries and the blind--United States.; Libraries and the blind.; Library of Congress. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped.; People with disabilities--Services for--United States