Adaptive Services
The DC Public Library, through its Adaptive Services Division, helps the deaf community, visually impaired, older adults, veterans and injured service people better use the library.
DC Public Library Accommodation Statement
Recent Events
DC Regional Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Library Services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Communities
- Resources for learning American Sign Language
- Free American Sign Language classes
- Deaf Culture Programs
- American Sign Language Story Hours
- LSDC News
- Deaf Community Links
L-STAR Library Services to At-home Readers
Library materials by mail for persons who are temporarily or permanently unable to leave their homes because of age, disability or illness.
Adaptive Technology Program
The Adaptive Technology (AT) Program provides ATs for people who need to use them in order to access the libraries programs and services. Adaptive Technologies are devices that increase people abilities to access the libraries programs and services. We provide standard ATs at all the branches and divisions of the DC Public Library, and specialized as well as standard ATs in the Adaptive Services Division Computer Lab at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library. Volunteer Trainers are available at the Martin Luther King Jr Library to teach a standard curriculum of lessons to get people up to a basic level of functionality using ATs. Networking programs and events on the topic of ATs are coordinated at the library and in the DC area. To access more information about services provided through the Adaptive Technology Program, please click on the links below:
- List of Adaptive Technology
- Volunteer Training Program
- Saturday Technology Training Sessions
- Adaptive Services Interest Group
- Accessibility DC Meet-up
Room 215, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library
901 G St., NW, Washington, DC 20001
Telephone: 202-727-2142
Videophone: 202-559-5368
Video Relay Service: 1-866-570-7364, ask for Janice Rosen
TTY: 202-727-2255
E-mail: lbph.dcpl@dc.gov
Hours: 12noon-9pm Monday and Tuesday, 9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m., Wednesday through Friday
