D.C. Facility Offers Audiobooks, Equipment Tailored to Needs of Blind Patrons

Stephanie Holbrook sent over This Washington Post Article on the Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. Located within the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library at Ninth and G streets NW, the special needs library serves more than 1,250 readers and institutions, according to Phil Wong-Cross, chief of adaptive services.

Some library systems, including the District’s, began offering services for blind and physically handicapped patrons in the 1930s, and the D.C. facility was opened in 1973, according to Wong-Cross and the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped.

July 29, 2005 by Uncategorized 0

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