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What accommodations must a public library make, by law, to ensure that the Internet and other electronic resources are accessible to people with disabilities?	Beata Bartholomay

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To: Director of Library Services From: Beata Bartholomay Re: ADA Inquiry October 6, 1998

Question: What accommodations must a public library make, by law, to ensure that the Internet and other electronic resources are accessible to people with disabilities?

Encyclopedic Resources:

1. "Americans with Disabilities Act: Analysis and Implications" (Am Jur 2d).
2. Corpus Juris Secundum (14 C.J.S., IV, Section 2) provides guidance on the definitions of persons with disabilities, general requirements for accommodations for public entities.
3. "Law Libraries and the ADA" at: http://www.law.utexas.edu/staff/rweston/ada-htm.htm provides specifics on accessibility of electronic resources.
4. "People with Disabilities and the NII" Department of Justice Web site at: http://www.itpolicy.gsa.gov/coca/nii.htm

Statutory Resources:

1. "Rehabilitation Act of 1973" 34 C.F.R. 104.44 (d) Section 504
2. "Unruh Civil Rights Act:" California Civil Code Section 51,52,54.1 and 54.2
3. "Americans with Disabilities Act" 28 C.F.R. especially Parts 35 and 36
4. California Building Code Title 24 3101 A(d)

Case Law: The following cases were gleaned from LEXIS.

1. Lewis "Toby" Tyler v. City of Manhattan (1994) 849 F. Supp. 1429
2. Alexander v. Choate 469 U.S. 287
3. Heather K. v. City of Mallard, Iowa 946 F. Supp. 1373

Law Review Articles:

1. Who is Individual with Handicaps under rehabilitation Act of 1973, 97 A.L.R. Fed. 40.
2. The American with Disabilities Act of 1990: An Analysis of Title III and Applicable Case Law, 29 Suffolk U.L. Rev. 1117 (1990).
3. Defining the term "disability" under the Americans with Disabilities Act, 10 St. Thomas L. rev 281(1998).
4. "Law Libraries and the Americans with Disabilities Act, 86 law Libr. J. 299 (1995).