When reading the 10 ideas for addressing accessibility in your library from Hopkins, 2004, I was thinking back to my own local library. For one thing I know from my own experience that my local library has multiple different options for listening to books on tape. My local library also has push button doors as well as an elevator for anyone who is in a wheelchair or cannot walk up stairs. Something interesting to me is that I do not recall ever seeing brail in my local library. I am surprised because books can be for anyone even the blind can read books by listening to them. Something else brought up was the idea of large print books. These are interesting because I know my local library carries quite a large selection of large print books. I never really thought about that some people need larger printed books to be able to see the words on the page. It is so amazing to me the multitude of ways libraries can be adapted for a multitude of different disabilities.
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