Adaptive Services
The DC Public Library, through its Adaptive Services Division, helps the deaf community, visually impaired, older adults, veterans and injured service people better use the library.
DC Public Library Accommodation Statement
DC Regional Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
- Descriptive Video Collection
- BARD: Downloading Digital Books and Magazines
- Inside the Beltway: A Newsletter
Library Services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Communities
L-STAR Library Services to at-Home Readers
Library materials by mail for persons who are temporarily or permanently unable to leave their homes because of age, disability or illness.
Adaptive Technology Program
The Adaptive Technology (AT) Program provides ATs for people who need to use them in order to access the library's programs and services. Adaptive Technologies are devices that increase people's ability to access the library's programs and services. We provide CCTVs at selected branches and divisions of the DC Public Library, and specialized as well as standard ATs in the Adaptive Services Division at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library. Free training is available in the Adaptive Services Division to teach the basics of using ATs. Networking programs and events on the topic of ATs are coordinated at the library and in the D.C. area. To access more information about services provided through the Adaptive Technology Program, please visit the pages below:
- List of Adaptive Technologies (ATs)
- AT Training Program
- Saturday Technology Training Sessions bi-monthly user group
- Adaptive Services Interest Group AT professional meet-up
- Accessibility DC monthly meet-up
- AccessibilityCampDC annual Un-conference
- Adaptive Technology Tips and HintsOonline AT tutorials
- Adaptive Services Internet Classroom - learn ATs on your own
- Accessibility Hackathon Project 2011
- Tech Talk Tuesdays
- iPad Accessibility Tip Sheet
- Audio-Video Archive of iPhone Sessions
- Ablegamer's Accessibility Arcade
Fall 2012 (Past) Events:
- The DC Public Library Celebrates Clerc Gallaudet Week
- DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Fair for People with and without Disabilities Nov. 17 and Nov. 18
- Accessibility Accelerator Series
- List of Fall Adaptive Technology Programs
- Secondary Transition Event, Nov. 2 and Nov. 3
- Accessibility Hackathon 2, Nov. 10
- The AbleGamers Foundation’s Accessibility Arcade at the DC Public Library
- Mayor's Annual Disability Awareness Expo, Oct. 10
- Accessibility Camp DC 2012, Oct. 13
- National Forum on Disability Issues Webcast - Sept. 28
- White House Proclamation
- Tech "EE" Talk, Assistive Technology Expo for Intellectual Disabilities, April 28
Contact Us
Room 215, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library
901 G St. NW, Washington, DC 20001
Telephone: 202-727-2142
Videophone: 202-559-5368
E-mail: lbph.dcpl@dc.gov
Hours: noon-9 p.m. Monday and Tuesday; 9:30 a.m.– 5:30 p.m., Wednesday through Friday