ADDED ENTRIES
Date: Fall 2004
v. 32, no. 1
The following titles have been selected from materials added to the NLS reference
collections during summer 2004. Entries are arranged according to subject headings
developed and used by the NLS Reference Section for its collections. Wherever
possible, prices of publications have been included. Full publishers' addresses are
included when they are not readily obtainable through libraries and bookstores. Items
marked with an asterisk ( ) are especially recommended for basic reference
collections in libraries serving visually and physically handicapped readers.
_Requests for materials listed should be sent directly to the publishers or sources cited
with each entry. Items are not available from NLS unless specifically
indicated.__
__NLS Publications
Braille literacy: resources for instruction, writing equipment, and supplies
see
Braille Instruction
Guide to spoken-word recordings: popular literature
see
Spoken-Word Recordings
Reference circular and factsheets 2003
see
Talking-book Program Library of Congress
BLINDNESS HISTORY
Ferguson, Ronald, J. We know who we are: a history of the blind in challenging
educational and socially constructed policies: a study in policy archaeology. San
Francisco: Caddo Gap Press, 2001. $24.95. (3145 Geary Blvd, PMB 275, CA 94118).
BRAILLE INSTRUCTION
Library of Congress. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically
Handicapped. Braille literacy: resources for instruction, writing equipment, and
supplies. Compiled by Freddie Peaco. Washington, 2004. 56p. Free. Also available
online at www.loc.gov/nls/reference/circulars/brailleliteracy.html.
CATARACTS
Cataract: what you should know. Retrieved Aug. 19, 2004. www.nei.nih.gov/health/
cataract/cataract_facts.asp.
CLOSED-CIRCUIT TELEVISION (CCTV)
Farrenkopf, Carol. You can take it with you: a review of three portable CCTVs.
AccessWorld, v. 5, July 2004. Retrieved July 23, 2004. www.afb.org/afbpress/
pub.asp?DocID=aw050405.
DIABETES
What I need to know about physical activity and diabetes. Bethesda, MD: National
Institutes of Health, National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse, 2004. 14p. Free.
[booklet]. (1 Information Way, 20892). Also available online at
www.diabetes.niddk.nih.gov.
DISABILITIES--DIRECTORIES
Directory of disability organizations in Canada, 2004-2005. Toronto: Canadian
Abilities Foundation, 2004. 737p. $50. (340 College Street, Suite 650, M5T 3A9).
DISABILITIES--STATISTICS
Landmark disability survey finds pervasive disadvantages. Retrieved July 15, 2004.
www.nod.org/content.cfm?id=1537.
EDUCATIONAL TESTING
Allan, James M ., Nanette Bulla, and Stephen A. Goodman. Test access: guidelines
for computer-administered testing. Louisville: American Printing House for the Blind,
2003. 82p. Available online at www.aph.org/tc/access/index.html.
EDUCATIONAL TESTING
Thomas, Karen Lynn. Reading with netLibray and other e-book collections.
Dialogue, v. 43, spring 2004: 89-93.
ELECTRONIC BOOKS EQUIPMENT
Leventhal, Jay. A library in your hand: a review of the Book Port and the
BookCourier. AccessWorld, v. 5, July 2004. Retrieved July 23, 2004.
www.afb.org/afbpress/pub.asp?DocID=aw050407.
EMERGENCY PREPARDNESS
Executive order: individuals with disabilities in emergency preparedness. Retrieved
August 11, 2004. www.nod.org/content.cfm?id=1546.
United States Department of Labor, Office of Disability Employment Policy.
Emergency preparedness for people with disabilities: an interagency seminar of
exchange for federal managers, Dec. 2-3, 2003: summary report. Washington, 2004.
77p. Free. (200 Constitution Avenue NW, Room S-1303, DC 20210). Available in
alternative formats and online at www.dol.gov/odep/pubs/ep/
index2.htm.
HORTICULTURE AND PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
Davis, Thomas D., and Carol Peredo Lopez. Gaining access to the outdoors. PN, v.
58, Aug. 2004: 28-32.
LEARNING DISABILITIES
Reading and learning disabilities. NICHCY briefing paper # FS17. 4th ed.
Washington: National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities, 2004. 15p.
Free. (P.O. Box 1492, DC 20013).
LIBRARIANS--EDUCATION
Walling, Linda Lucas. Educating students to serve information seekers with
disabilities. Journal of education for library and information science, v. 45, spring
2004: 137-148.
LIBRARIANS--STANDARDS
Guidelines for implementing and maintaining reference services. Retrieved Aug. 5,
2004. www.ala.org/ala/rusa/rusaprotools/referenceguide/virtrefguidelines.htm.
LITERACY
Reading at risk: a survey of literary reading in America. Washington: National
Endowment for the Arts, 2004. 47p. Free. [Research Division Report #6]. (1100
Pennsylvania Avenue NW, 20506). Also available online at www.arts.gov.
PARKING
McCloskey, Maureen, and Robert Herman. It's not a perfect world, parts 1 and 2. PN,
v. 58, July 2004: 57-60 and Aug. 2004: 43-45.
SCREEN READERS
Denham, Jim, Jay Leventhal, and Heather McComas. The key to the information age:
a review of three screen readers, part 2. AccessWorld, v. 5, July 2004. Retrieved July
23, 2004. www.afb.org/afbpress/pub.asp?DocID=aw050403.
SENIOR ADULTS--STATISTICS
A profile of older Americans: 2003. Updated March 9, 2004. Retrieved August 26,
2004. www.aoa.gov/prof/statistics/profile/2003S2003.asp.
SPOKEN-WORD RECORDINGS
Library of Congress. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically
Handicapped. Guide to spoken-word recordings: popular literature. Compiled by
Carol Strauss. Washington, 2004. 47p. Free. Also available online at
www.loc.gov/nls/reference/circulars/spokenword.html.
TALKING-BOOK PROGRAM--LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Library of Congress. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically
Handicapped. Reference circulars and factsheets 2003. Washington, 2004. One
cassette. Free. (contains five reference documents: Facts: selected sources for
electronic texts; Facts: selected veterans organizations; Facts: sources for purchase of
cassette players and player-recorders compatible with recorded materials produced by
the National Library Service (NLS); Reference circular: Information for travelers with
physical or visual disabilities; Reference circular: physical disabilities: information
and advocacy organizations).
VOLUNTEERS--PRISON GROUPS
Cheakalos, Christina. New leash on life [prison inmates raising puppies to be guide
dogs]. Smithsonian, v. 35, Aug. 2004: 62-68.
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