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Oakland Public Library offers Extended Services to persons with disabilities. Under the guidelines of the ADA, or Americans With Disabilities Act, disability means, with respect to an individual, a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more life activities of that individual. If you are a person with a disability, fill out an application for Extended Services for Library Patrons with Disabilities. Mail, fax, or return the application form to the Oakland Public Library- Main Library, Attention: Extended Services Coordinator, 125 14th Street, Oakland, CA. 94612. Fax: (510) 238-2125 Or turn it in to any branch library, and they will send it to the ES Coordinator. You will be registered for extended services within five days after your application has been received by the Extended Services Coordinator. The application process is kept confidential and the type of disability will NOT be placed in the library database. A code "ES" for Extended Services will be added to your record. If you have questions
about extended services or other services for persons with disabilities,
call Lynne Cutler, Disability Services Advocate, at 238-3136 (Voice);
Extended Services for Patrons with Disabilities include the following:
Ability to authorize one or two individuals to check out your library materials for you. Automatic extension of circulation periods on all items which usually circulate for 3 weeks. ES patrons get six weeks on these items. Renewals are only for 3 weeks. Descriptive videos go out for six weeks to ES patrons and can be reserved and sent to any branch, and returned to any branch. 150 free holds per year. If you are homebound, and need to place more holds, call Lynne Cutler. Answers to ready reference questions photocopied from a reference source and either faxed or mailed directly to your home. (Limit: one question and five photocopied pages per day.) If you call for this service, please tell the librarian that you are an ES patron. There is no charge. SEE ALSO: "Guide to Services & Materials for Persons with Disabilities" which lists other services and adaptive technologies available at the library.
* Forms also available in Chinese, Vietnamese, Spanish, Braille or audiotape versions. NOV/2002 Oakland
Public Library
Name ______________________________________ Address ____________________________________ City, Zip code _______________________________ Phone number ______________________________
If NO, please fill out the application for a library card and return it with this completed form. If you are at any location of the Oakland Public Library, the staff there can give you a library card right away. They will mail or fax the application for Extended Services to the Coordinator of that program, and you will be registered for extended services within five days. The following two questions are optional, but they allow us to know what services might be needed, and what barriers exist. They also help us with efforts to gain more funding for disability services. Thank you!
2. WHAT IS YOUR DISABILITY? __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________
3.HOW DOES YOUR DISABILITY AFFECT YOUR ABILITY TO USE THE LIBRARY? __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________
4. WOULD YOU
LIKE TO AUTHORIZE SOMEONE ELSE TO CHECK OUT YOUR LIBRARY MATERIALS
FOR YOU?
Yes__ No__ PLEASE MAIL OR RETURN THIS COMPLETED FORM TO: OAKLAND PUBLIC
LIBRARY - MAIN LIBRARY OR FAX IT TO: (510) 238-2125
* Forms also available in Chinese, Vietnamese, Spanish, Braille or audiotape versions. NOV/2002
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