ABSTRACT
Pressures for services to unserved populations are also coming from parent organizations without, of course, concomitant funding to provide for the planning and implementation of new programs. Traditionally, libraries are relatively passive places in terms of providing services, not for a lack of will but usually for a lack of funds. Thomas E. Hecker, coordinator of Disabilities Services for the University of Kentucky Libraries, explores approaches to services for patrons with mental illness from two models–patrons with disabilities. Katy Lenn of the University of Oregon Libraries discusses ways of addressing the needs of disabled students in the academic library. Integrating technology into a library setting forms the basis for the report by Adele L. Barsh and Meliza Jackson. Their work in the patients’ library at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic involved the improvement of access to information sources on behalf of people with cognitive disorders whose ability to process text-based information is impaired.
