Library Services for those with Disabilites

For more information and to schedule your appointment, please contact the Information Desk (x4175). Library hours can be accessed online or by calling x4136. Patrons can also email questions to an MBI librarian for research assistance. Emails can be sent directly to library staff members, or you can fill out the online Ask a Librarian form to submit a question.

Students with disabilities may be eligible for assistive technology. Contact Allen Hammond—phone: (312) 329-2177; email: allen.hammond@moody.edu.

Contact Associate Dean of Student Services for the Michigan Campus—phone: (734) 207-9581.

Students with disabilities may be eligible for assistive technology. Contact Allen Hammond— phone: (312) 329-2177; email: allen.hammond@moody.edu.

Users with disabilities may request assistance in retrieving materials from the stacks at the Circulation Desk—phone: (312) 329-4136, on the entry-level of the library, or at the Information Desk—phone: (312) 329-4175, on the lower level. Students may also request assistance from library employees engaged in reshelving library materials.

MBI students, faculty, and staff may check out resources for four weeks and renew them three times, in order to use them with special reading equipment. Please contact the Circulation Supervisor at circulation@moody.edu if resources are required beyond the standard checkout period.

MBI students, faculty, and staff may bring library materials (journals, books, microforms, etc.) to the Information Desk—phone (312) 329-4175, for help with photocopying or scanning. Copies will be made for the user in accordance with copyright guidelines. Users are encouraged to plan ahead to avoid last-minute requests for this accommodation.

Patrons with disabilities may ask library staff to determine if a book, periodical, or newspaper is on the shelf and ask that the item be retrieved and held for them—phone: (312) 329-4175.

A student who has self-identified with the Student Resource Center will have an account created to access the Kurzweil 3000 program. For more information about the Kurzweil 3000 program, please contact Assistant Director of Disability Support Services Allen Hammond at the Student Resource Center on Smith 3—email allen.hammond@moody.edu; phone (312) 329-2177. A large-print screen reader is located on the library’s lower level.

If you know you will need Braille, audio, or other specialized library materials, please notify us via the Ask a Librarian form. The ordering and processing can take up to six weeks. In addition, students may contact the Talking Book and Braille Service of the Illinois State Library by emailing Sharon Ruda, Director, at sruda@ilsos.gov, or by calling (217) 782-9435.

For access to the lower level of the library, the Circulation Desk Assistant or Public Safety Desk worker will assist the patron with the elevator accommodation. All patrons exiting the library must pass through the security gates. The patron using the elevator accommodation will be escorted by a library worker to pass through the security gates.

Aisles and furniture in the library are wheelchair-accessible. Room-number signage can be read in Braille.

In the event of an emergency, library users with disabilities should wait at the center stairwell for assistance. Emergency personnel will be clearing the building during an emergency and will be checking the stairwells.

If you have questions or suggestions regarding library services for library users with disabilities, contact us via the Ask a Librarian form.