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Services for Users with Special Needs - About the Facilities

Facilitated Study Room in Bailey/Howe Library

Location:

  • The Facilitated Study Room is located in the Microforms area on the 2nd floor of the Bailey/Howe Library along the south wall, third door on the left, past the great stair and the Reference Service Desk.

Specialized Equipment in this room:

  • Two Windows 2000 computers with speakers, headphones, CD-RW drives and Microsoft Office XP
  • Two flatbed scanners with OmniPage Pro to scan documents to be read by the computers
  • Braille Blazer to print in Braille:
  • Closed Circuit TV to magnify text and other objects placed under a camera
  • Reading Edge Kurzweil Reader to scan, digitize and read back a sheet of text

Specialized Programs on these computers:

  • Dragon Naturally Speaking 6.0
  • Inspiration 6
  • JAWS for Windows 4.0
  • Lernout & Hauspie Kurzweill 3000
  • MAGpie 2
  • Scan and Read Pro
  • Total Recorder
  • Various other programs such as media players and tools to help with conversion of text-to-speach, etc.

Where to go for help:

  • For general help with the equipment in the Facilitated Study Room, see the librarians at the Reference Services Desk
  • For specific help with the equipment, contact ACCESS

   
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