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In addition to our collection of videocassettes, compact
discs, audiocassettes, DVDs, books on CD and CD-ROMs, 1431 at RCPL proudly offers several nonprint services from its
popular store front location at the Main Library. If you have
questions, please call
us at (803) 929-3450 for assistance.
Collection Guides
To help you quickly locate materials, a number
of Collection Guides have been prepared. These include items
abut South Carolina's people and places; history and culture
of African Americans, Irish Americans, Senior Citizens, Women
and Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, and Transgendered persons;
Disney; Academy Award-Winning, Horror, James Bond, Martial
Arts and Western Films. Other Collection Guides list titles
related to business, cooking, exercise, pets, poetry, radio's
"golden age," reggae, Frank Sinatra, television,
wars, weddings and foreign films.
Videotapes for Child Care Staff Training
The South Carolina State Library makes available a collection
of early childhood videocassettes suitable for parents, care
givers, teachers and other adults who care for young children
or train others who work with young children. These videos
are available to our card holders via interlibrary loan. 1431 at RCPL has a catalog of available titles
and handles all such requests.
Library Services for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
The South Carolina State Library's Talking
Book Service can, as a free service to qualified individuals,
loan a variety of materials including braille and large print
books, descriptive videotapes and talking books on cassettes
and records. Specific titles may be requested or titles related
to desired general subject areas can be selected for the person.
A cassette player, phonograph and other audio accessories
for use with those materials may also be borrowed. Equipment,
loaned on an extended basis, remains the property of the Federal
Government.
According to Department for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
guidelines, the following persons are eligible:
- Legally blind persons whose visual acuity is 20/200 or
less in the better eye with correcting lenses, or widest
diameter of visual field subtends an angular distance no
greater than 20 degrees.
- Other physically handicapped persons as follows: a) persons
whose visual disability, with correction, prevents the reading
of standard printed material; b) persons unable to read
or use standard printed material as a result of physical
limitations; and c) persons having a reading disability
resulting from organic dysfunction and of sufficient severity
to prevent their reading printed material in a normal manner.
Application forms and other details are available in 1431 at RCPL, or by calling the State Library's Department for
the Blind and Physically Handicapped at (803) 734-4611.
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