contact nls in Washington. I don't guarantee it will work but it can't hurt. I wonder how the librarian would like it if you threatened a lawsuit for discrimination?
Rita----- Original Message ----- From: "Judy s." <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 12:54 PM Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Way To Go Booksharians!
Thanks to everyone for their supportive replies - it's just been SO frustrating to deal with! It's quite insulting too, to have this librarian very condescendingly tell me that I need to "read to an adult level." Excuse me? Without knowing a thing about me she jumps to that conclusion? It has so much felt like the other prejudices we run into. My husband and I laugh about it (privately, of course) when people meet me and because I'm now severely disabled talk very loudly and very slowly and use little words. The same kind of "oh, you're disabled so you must be patronized" is how this feels with this librarian. I'm a patron of the NLS, so therefore I automatically must be pushed to a higher reading level because NLS patrons by virtue of qualifying for the service are a tad slow and need to have someone who knows better decide these sorts of things for them?I think not!I've complained bitterly to the regional library supervisor, with no action, but finally have found a way around the problem when our regional library gave me an on-line access last month (which I had asked about for 2 years and been told wasn't available!) so I can set up my own waiting list of books that I want, and request that they not slip in other titles and just go from that list. I checked today, and lo and behold my preferences have been over-ridden and reset back again to "no young adult books, no children's books" so I'll have to do some more cage rattling and get it reset to my preferences.Sigh. Thanks for listening to me rant. I do use NLS all the time, and appreciate the idea behind it and the service that it provides, but I love having Bookshare. It let's me pick and choose exactly what I want to read, when I want to read it, without layers of obstacles between me and my passion for books!Judy s. cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxTo unsubscribe from this list, send a blank Email to bookshare-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the Subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.-- No virus found in this incoming message.Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.487 / Virus Database: 269.13.19/1008 - Release Date: 9/14/2007 8:59 AM
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