[Md-sligo] FW: Adaptive Technology (AT) Events at DC Public Library, January - July, 2016

[Brown, Debbie]

From: Timony, James (DCPL) [mailto:James.Timony at dc.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 9:35 AM
To: Timony, James (DCPL)
Subject: Adaptive Technology (AT) Events at DC Public Library, January - July, 2016

If you need accommodation to attend these programs, including American Sign Language Interpretation, please contact us as early as possible. Our accommodation statement is: http://dclibrary.org/node/2095 . All events will be held in room 215, Center for Accessibility, at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G Street NW, Washington DC, 20001. The library is located between Gallery Place and Metro Center.

Employment, Entrepreneurship and Technology Series, spring 2016

Spring 2016 at the Center for Accessibility at DC Public Library will feature a series of events dedicated to supporting the search for employment, the steps to entrepreneurship, and the use of adaptive technologies for library customers with disabilities. This is a combination of our fall Accessibility Accelerator Series which focused on entrepreneurship, last spring's Job Club Series which focused on employment, and the previous spring's Maker Series which focused on tools. The Maker Series taught skills like blogging, audio and video production, and computer programming and hardware design. The Job Club taught the steps to employment, including knowing your technologies, knowing your skills, marketing yourself, searching for jobs, doing interviews, and negotiating. The Accelerator Series taught entrepreneurial skills in the areas of adaptive design, life skills, AT training, accessible media and research and development.

The schedule of events will include the following regularly scheduled events. A list of the Saturday session topics is included following that:

--Saturday Technology Training Sessions (STTS) usually on the first and third Saturdays, 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm, http://dclibrary.org/node/29711
--Tech Talk Tuesdays, every Tuesday except the 5th if there is one, 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm: http://dclibrary.org/node/11406 Mobile Accessibility meetup, Employment meetup, Maker Meetup, Game Night.
--JAWS Training and Friday Lunch and Learn, every Wednesday and Thursday, 10:00 am to 3:15 pm and Friday 12pm to 1pm, contact Patrick at 202-727-1335 or patrick.timony at dc.gov<mailto:patrick.timony at dc.gov> for details. The Brown Bag Lunch and Learn in room 215 is an opportunity for all library customers interested in adaptive technology to socialize and share information on adaptive technologies, strategies and resources.  Bring your own lunch.  There will be no presentations. The meeting is open to everyone.
--An Orientation and Mobility Meetup, biweekly (dates and times soon to follow).

January 16th - Inclusive Planning, Adaptive Design, and Employment for people with disabilities, featuring presentations and story sharing by Jason Corning, president of the Metro Washington Association of the DeafBlind, and Janice Forbes, National Federation of the Blind DC Employment Committee: Preparing for a Job Fair and Adaptive Sports and Recreation, and other guests. After the presentations, there will be an Inclusive Planning Session on how the community can use the library's maker spaces (Fabrication Lab and Studio Lab):  http://dclibrary.org/labsatdcpl to support employment and entrepreneurship.

February 6th - Knowing your Technology: Computer Hardware, Operating Systems, Accessible Mobile Devices, Computer Refurbishing, and Adaptive Technology with presentaitons by Dennis Courtney of the Capital PC Users Group, and Sarah Whiddon Computer Fix Woman; and other guests

February 20th - Knowing your Technology -- Blogging, Social Technologies, What are my skills?  What do I like to do? With guests to be announced.

March 5th - Life Skills & Orientation Mobility / Marketing strategies (Business Cards, Resume, Elevator pitch), guests to be announced

March 19th - Life Skills & Orientation Mobility / Marketing strategies - guests to be announced

April 2nd - Accessible Media / Job searching - Agencies, Online, Cold Calls, guests to be announced

April 16th - Accessible Media / Job Searching - Garageband, StudioLab, Description, Captioning, Interviews, Dress for Success, mock interviews, guests to be announced

May 7th - Research and Development / Interviews - Dress for success, mock interviews, guests to be announced

May 21st - Research and Development / Make decisions negotiate salary, continue the search, guests to be announced

June 4th - Open

June 18th - Open

July 16th - Open / Entrepreneurial Demonstrations and Show and Tell

Please note there is no public parking at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library.   Paid parking is available in public lots in the neighborhood and there is limited meter parking on the street.   Two subway stations - Gallery Place (Red, Yellow, Green lines, exit at 9th and G) and Metro Center (Red, Orange, Blue, Silver lines, exit at 11th and G) - are within a block or two from the library.   Several city bus routes (X2, 42, 43, D1, D3, D6, P3, G8, 80, 81, S2, S4, 52, 54, 70, 71, 79) are also within a few blocks of the library.


James Patrick Timony
Librarian, Adaptive Technology
DC Public Library
202-727-1335

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