AnyAbility: Serving Adults with Disabilities

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Learn about one library's experience creating programs that have grown into engaging experiences where adults with disabilities connect with their community, interact with peers, and utilize library resources. As a result of the AnyAbility program, library staff are more comfortable using people-first language, have rewarding interactions with customers with disabilities, and have positively changed the dynamic of the library.

Outcomes:

1. Recognize the importance of people-first language.

2. Design programs for adults with disabilities.

3. Develop enriching and accepting spaces where adults with disabilities can flourish.

Presenters:

Hannah Martinez

Hannah Martinez is a concierge at Anythink Libraries in Adams County, Colorado. She played an integral role in developing AnyAbility, Anythink’s program for adults with disabilities. Hannah’s desire to foster inclusion and promote dignity, combined with her passion for library services, led her to create a number of experiences tailored specifically for this group of library customers. For her work with AnyAbility, now in its fifth year, Hannah was awarded the 2015 Lucy Schweers Award for Excellence in Paralibrarianship from the Colorado Association of Libraries.

Maria Mayo

Maria Mayo is an adult guide at Anythink Libraries in Adams County, Colorado. She received her MLIS from the University of South Carolina and is the recipient of the 2017 South Carolina Library Association Scholarship for Diversity in Librarianship. Maria is a passionate advocate for the expansion of services to diverse populations. For the past two years, Maria has worked with the AnyAbility program to provide meaningful and empowering experiences for adults with disabilities at the library.

Marsha Marcilla

Marsha Marcilla is the Branch Supervisor at Anythink Libraries in Adams County, Colorado. She attended the University of New Mexico with an emphasis on Business Administration and is currently attending Colorado Christian University pursuing a degree in Human Resources and Personnel Management. Marsha is passionate about the people she works with and serving her community. She has worked with the AnyAbility program since its inception in April, 2014.

Webinar date and time: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 / 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm, Eastern

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The Indiana State Library will make all reasonable modifications to policies and programs to ensure that people with disabilities have an equal opportunity to enjoy all of its programs, services, and activities. If you require an auxiliary aid or service for effective communication, or a modification of policies or procedures to participate in this program, service or activity of the Indiana State Library, please contact Faye Brookins, the Indiana State Library’s ADA Coordinator (fbrookin@spd.in.gov or 317-233-1184). Notice of a needed accommodation should be provided as soon as possible to allow time for the State Library to arrange for the accommodation; however, notice of a needed accommodation must be provided to one of the above contacts no later than 48 hours in advance.

Event Type(s): ISL Webinar

Presenter: Hannah Martinez, Maria Mayo, and Marsha Marcilla, AnyThink Libraries (CO)

Courtney Brown

(317) 910-5777

cobrown@library.in.gov