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Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 10:40 CST
From: RBANKS%UWSTOUT.BITNET@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu

Project EASI, Equal Access to Software and Information,  has just
started a new electronic discussion list on disability access to
libraries.  Dick Banks from U. Wisconsin at Stout will be its
moderator.  Anyone wanting to join the list or get further
information about it should contact Dick rbanks@uwstout.edu.

      EASI is starting the list to:

1.  provide a forum to share questions and answers about how to
make

2.  provide a platform from which to reach libraries which are not
yet considering seriously the question of access for users with
disabilities.

3.  provide a platform from which to lobby vendors of electronic
library services to create tools that are already highly
accessible.

4.  encourage electronic networks and network information services
to make their facilities as accessible as possible to users with
disabilities.

5.  create and provide EASI services to assist campus libraries and
information providers with resources to assist them in becoming
more disability accessible.

     The print handicapped have the possibility of making ready use
of libraries for the first time.  Mobility impaired persons have
the possibility of making use of libraries without travel.  It is
important that these new electronic services be built from the
ground up with access awareness rather than having to become
modified later.  Please join us in this important task.

Norman Coombs
Chair, Project EASI
Professor of HIstory
Rochester Institute of Technology.
nrcgsh@ritvax.isc.rit.edu

Dick BAnks
easilibxs moderator
Adaptive Technologist
Library Learning Center
University of Wisconsin-Stout
rbanks@uwstout.edu


For information about Project EASI:
easi@educom.bitnet or easi@educom.edu

A project of EDUCOM's Educational Uses of Information Technology
Program  (EUIT), EASI provides information and guidance on campus
applications of  adaptive computer technology for access to
information resources,  instruction, research and employment.
EASI's membership includes professionals from throughout the United
States, Canada and other countries.