Extended Services for Patrons with Disabilities |
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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, 125 14th Street, Oakland, CA. 94612.
Fax: (510) 238-2232. Or, turn it in to any branch library, and staff will send it to the Main Library.
You will be registered for extended services within five days after your application has been received at the Main Library. 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 Jamie Turbak, Administrative Librarian for the Oakland Public Library, at 510-238-6610.
Extended Services for Patrons with Disabilities include the following:
Ability to apply for an Oakland Public Library card and for Extended Services by mail.
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 three weeks.
Automatic extension of circulation periods on DVDs and videos, resulting in a 2-week checkout. Descriptive videos go out for six weeks to ES patrons and can be reserved and sent to any branch, and returned to any branch.
20 holds at a time, instead of 10.
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. This can also be found on our web site www.oaklandlibrary.org
Oakland Public Library
APPLICATION for Extended Services
for Patrons with Disabilities
Name_____________________________________________ Address __________________________________________
City, Zip code ______________________________________ Phone number _____________
1. DO YOU HAVE A CURRENT OAKLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY CARD? Yes No If NO, please complete an application for a library card. If you are at any location of the Oakland Public Library, the staff there can give you a library card right away. Otherwise, attach your application to this form and mail or fax it along with a copy of identification.
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?
___________________________________________
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3. HOW DOES YOUR DISABILITY AFFECT YOUR ABILITY TO USE THE LIBRARY? __________________________________________________________
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4. WOULD YOU LIKE TO AUTHORIZE SOMEONE ELSE TO CHECK OUT YOUR LIBRARY MATERIALS FOR YOU?
Yes__ No__ If Yes, write their names below (two people maximum, you can change these later). The persons you authorize must have their personal identification and your library card with them when they check out your materials.
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PLEASE MAIL OR RETURN THIS COMPLETED FORM TO:
ADA Coordinator
Main Oakland Public Library
125 14th Street
Oakland, CA 94612
OR FAX IT TO: (510) 238-2232
You will be registered and may use extended services within five days after this application is received by the Extended Services Coordinator. If you also applied by mail for your library card, the card will be sent to you. Extended services
are good at the Main Library and at all branches of the Oakland Public Library.
Forms also available in Chinese, Vietnamese, Spanish, or Braille. All versions except Braille are on the library’s website at www.oaklandlibrary.org under Disability Services.
October, 2011
| Page Last Edited October 17, 2011 |