ACRL/NY Professional Development Committee, METRO and LACUNY PDC invite you to the Spring 2025 Program.
Speaker: Ashley Dalle
Ashley Dalle is the Supervising Librarian at the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library, and a New York City native. Ashley has previously worked at Orange County Public Library, Jersey City Free Public Library, and St. George Library Center on Staten Island.
Program Details
The Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library is a branch of the New York Public Library (NYPL) and the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled (NLS, Library of Congress) that provides FREE accessible reading material for students and faculty who are blind, low vision, physically disabled, print disabled, or otherwise unable to read print, to patrons located in the five boroughs of New York City, Nassau, and Suffolk Counties. Andrew Heiskell Library offers materials to borrow in a wide range of formats, including braille, talking books (audio), and magazines, for college age students, researchers, staff, and faculty, as well as players and mobile apps, and access to Bookshare. Ashley Dalle, Interim Chief Librarian, will present on how to apply for NLS service, the benefit to you, your students, and your staff, as well as the types of assistive technology courses and workshops that are being offered, for FREE, to program registrants.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will learn how to utilize National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled (NLS, Library of Congress)
- Participants will learn availability of free assistive technology courses and their application for their library populations
- Participants will be equipped with actionable insight to foster community engagement
This program is open to ACRL/NY, METRO and LACUNY members.
If you are not an ACRL/NY member: please use the following link to join or renew your membership to
ACRL/NY (http://acrlny.org/join-us/).
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information, please see http://acrlny.org/about2/code-of-conduct/