Services for Patrons with Disabilities

The UMD Library offers facilities and services to assist patrons with disabilities. UMD students requesting assistance will want to register with UMD's Disability Resources office.

Services offered include:

Individualized reference assistance
Materials retrieval
Loan period adjustments
Document delivery
Document conversion (to large print by photocopy, or from electronic image to electronic text)
Specialized service tailored to your needs (by prior arrangement)

Adaptive technology is available in rooms 122, 124, and 126 with a variety of software and hardware as listed below:

Room L122:

Hardware:

Windows PC with 20" flat screen, trackball, flatbed scanner, ET Braille Embosser, headset with microphone, and adjustable height work station.

Software:

The current Full-Access Lab software, plus:
JAWS 10, ZoomText 9.1, Inspiration 8.0b, Dragon-Naturally-Speaking 10, Read&Write Gold 9, Kurzweil 3000 v. 11, Kurzweil 1000 v. 11, Victor Reader Soft 2.0, and Duxbury Braille Translator.

Room L124:

Hardware:

A Mac with a 22” wide-screen display, a PC computer with a 20" flat panel, trackball for each computer, headset with microphone for PC, flatbed scanner, automatic door, and adjustable height work station.

Software:

Full-Access Lab software, plus:
Mac: Kurzweil 3000 v.4.
PC: JAWS 10, ZoomText 9.1, Inspiration 8.0b, Dragon-Naturally-Speaking 10, Read&Write Gold 9, Kurzweil 1000 v.11, and Victor Reader Soft 2.0.

Room L126:

Hardware:

Windows PC with 20" flat panel, trackball, headset with microphone, a flatbed scanner, a SmartView XTend page magnifier, a 4-track tape player for books on tape, and an adjustable height work station.

Software:

Full-Access Lab software, plus:
JAWS 10, ZoomText 9.1, Inspiration 8.0b, Dragon-Naturally-Speaking 10, Read&Write Gold 9, Kurzweil 3000 v. 11, Kurzweil 1000 v. 11, and Victor Reader Soft 2.0.

For further information on the adaptive equipment resources, please see descriptions on the Disability Resources page.

For more information or to request service, contact:

Charlene Brown
cbrown@d.umn.edu
218-726-8539