Wednesday, February 16, 2005
3:00pm - 5:00pm

U-M Alumni Center Founders Room
200 Fletcher Street (corner of Fletcher and East Washington)
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Nearly 80 LBPD consumers, U-M faculty, staff and students, professionals and the general public attended That All May Read from 3 - 5 P.M. on Wednesday, February 16, 2005.  This program was part of the University of Michigan School of Information "The Human Connection:  Words, Power, and Change in the BiblioTech Lecture Series". 

PROGRAM: 
Frank Kurt Cylke, Director, National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, discussed the history of the national program from its beginning in 1931 to the present.  He concluded with the development by NLS of the digital talking books program which will be introduced to the NLS network by 2008.

Margaret Wolfe, Librarian Coordinator, Washtenaw County Library for the Blind and Physically Disabled, talked about the services and the personalized programs currently offered through the Washtenaw County LBPD and the national network of libraries for the blind and physically handicapped.

Frank Kurt Cylke is the director of the National Library Service (NLS) for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress. Mr. Cylke joined the Library of Congress in 1970 as executive director of the Federal Library Committee (now called Federal Library and Information Center Committee), and assumed the directorship of NLS in 1973. Under Mr. Cylke’s direction, the number of users of NLS services has increased to more than 700,000 persons, ranging in age from preschool to over 100. NLS services are provided through a partnership between the Library of Congress, the U.S. Postal Service, and 145 regional and subregional libraries across the United Sates and in its territories.

Margaret Wolfe was the administrator of the regional library for the blind and physically handicapped in Lansing for twelve years. In 1995 she was named librarian coordinator at the Washtenaw County Library for the Blind and Physically Disabled, Ann Arbor, where she initiated and continues to promote programs and activities that make a difference in the lives of library consumers such as the popular Book Lovers Club; I Have a Story: Techniques in Oral Memoir Writing; and the biannual Visions program, a vendor fair attracting over 1100 attendees and volunteers. In 2003, Ms. Wolfe was the first NLS librarian to be recognized by the New York Times as a recipient of the New York Times Librarian Awards.

 
 
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