For all events below, ASL interpreters will be provided. Please request ADA accommodations 5 days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov.
Cultural Display: Items from Library of Congress Collections featuring Disability History
October 1-31, 2008
Lobby, James Madison Building
Keynote Program
October 14
Marian Vessels, director of the Mid-Atlantic ADA Center, delivers the 2008 Disability Employment Awareness keynote address.
10 a.m., Mumford Room, LM 649, James Madison Building
Demonstration
October 23
The Library offers demonstrations of the Kurzweil automated reading technology.
10 a.m., 11 a.m. and noon, Assistive Technology Demonstration Center, LM G-45, James Madison Building
Lecture
October 23
Betty Siegel, ADA Coordinator for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., discusses the center’s use of audio description (additional narration track) for its Theater Series shows.
1 p.m., West Dining Room, LM 621, James Madison Building
Film Screening
October 31
Screened is the 57-minute documentary film titled "Right to Risk," which follows eight individuals with significant physical disabilities on a 15-day whitewater raft trip down 225 miles of Colorado River.
10 a.m., LM 139, James Madison Building