Citations to Materials on the
Americans With Disabilities Act

A. General Resources on Serving Patrons with Disabilities

• Laurie Anastasia, Americans With Disabilities Act Information on the Web, University of Massachussetts Amherst Office of Equal Opportunity & Diversity (April 14, 1999), available at http://www.umass.edu/eod/adasites.html.
  
• Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ALA Division), Important Issues [relating to access] (as revised August 9, 2005), available at
  http://www.ala.org/ASCLATemplate.cfm?Section=asclaissues.
  
• David Brisendine, Survey of the rural library and the Americans with Disabilities Act, 18-2 Rural Libraries 7 (1998).
  
• GraceAnne A. De Candido, Transforming Libraries: Issues and Innovations in Service to Users With Disabilities (Association of Research Libraries April 1999), available at http://www.arl.org/transform/disabilities.
  
• Deborah Dauenheimer, Serving People with Disabilities in Colorado Libraries, 29-4 Colorado Libraries 15 (2003).
  
• Marti Goddard, Access Through Technology, Library Journal 2 (Spring 2004).
  
• Great Plains ADA/IT Center, Americans with Disabilites Act and Accessible Information Technology Center (last accessed August 26, 2005), available at http://www.adaproject.org.
  
• Margaret McCasland and Michael Golden, Improving ADA access: critical planning, 32-67/68 The Reference Librarian 257 (February 28, 2001).
  
• Elizabeth M. McKenzie and Kathleen E. Casey, Using Adaptive Technology to Provide Access to Blind, Low-Vision, and Dyslexic Patrons, 90 Law Library Journal 157 (Spring 1998).
  
• Ariel Mink, Library services for the disabled, 29-1 Nebraska Library Association Quarterly 14 (1998).
  
• Joan Naturale, Americans With Disabilities Act, Rochester Institute of Technology Libraries (December 18, 2001), available at http://wally.rit.edu/pubs/guides/ada.html. [An excellent bibliography of print and electronic resources for the ADA.]
  
• Rose Nelson, Creating Accessible Libraries, 28-4 Colorado Libraries 13 (2002).
  
• Kenton L. Oliver, The spirit of the law: when ADA compliance means overall excellence in service to patrons with disabilities, 36 Public Libraries 294 (1997).
  
• Bonnie Anne Osif and Richard L. Harwood, Americans with Disabilities Act, 12-3 Library Administration & Management 169 (1998). [A bibliographical essay on the ADA.]
  
• Bob Regan, Accessibility in K-12 Education, 21-5 Library Media Connection 58 (2003).
• Americans With Disabilities Act: Title III Highlights (1999), available at http://library.findlaw.com/1999/Mar/2/128738.html.
  
• Gretchen L. Wade, Serving the Visually Impaired User, 3-2 Portal 307 (2003).
• Marsha Werle, Challenge Your Library to Serve Challenged Individuals, 42-1 Public Libraries 16 (2003).
  
• Linda Lou Wiler and Eleanor Lomax, The Americans with Disabilities Act Compliance and Academic Libraries in the Southeastern United States, 2-1 Journal of Southern Academic and Special Librarianship (2000), available at
  http://southernlibrarianship.icaap.org/content/v02n01/wiler_l01.html.
  

B. Section 508 and Accessible Websites

• Jonathan Bick, Americans With Disabilities Act And The Internet, 10 Albany Law Journal of Science & Technology 205 (2000).
  
• Sarah E. Blake, Universal access, the ADA, and your library Web page, 57-1 Arkansas Libraries 19 (2000).
  
• General Services Administration Office of Governmentwide Policy, Section 508: The Road to Accessibility (August 15, 2002), available at http://www.section508.gov.
  
• Kim Guenther, Section 508 and your Web site, 26-2 Online 71 (2002).
  
• Paul T. Jaeger, Beyond Section 508: The spectrum of legal requirements for accessible e-government Web sites in the United States, 30-4 Journal of Government Information 518 (2004).
  
• Shirley E. Kaiser, Accessibility, Section 508, ADA, Americans with Disabilites Act, Website Tips, Websitetips.com (last accessed August 27, 2005), available at http://www.websitetips.com/accessibility.
  
• Diane D. Kester, Measuring the sight of your Web site, 57-3 North Carolina Libraries 114 (1999).
  
• Nancy J. King, Website Access for Customers with Disabilities: Can We Get There from Here?, 2003 UCLA Journal of Law and Technology 6 (2003).
  
• Janai Powell Lane, Are Web Sites a “Public Accommodation” Under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) Requiring Reasonable Access for Persons with Disabilities?, 21-1 Legal Reference Services Quarterly 75 (2002).
  
• William Lynch, Comment, The Application of Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 to the Internet: Proper E-Planning Prevents Poor E-Performance, 2 CommLaw Conspectus Journal of Communications Law and Policy 245 (2004).
  
• Steven Mendelsohn and Martin Gould, When the Americans with Disabilities Act Goes Online: Application of the ADA to the Internet and the World Wide Web, 7 Computer Law Review & Technology Journal 173 (Winter 2004).
  
• Justin D. Petruzzelli, Note, Adjust Your Font Size: Websites are Public Accommodations Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, 53 Rutgers Law Review 1063 (Summer 2001).
  
• George H. Pike, Disability Access and the Internet, 20-2 Information Today 19 (2003).
  
• Jeffrey Scott Ranen, Note, Was Blind But Now I See: The Argument for ADA Applicability to the Internet, 22 Boston College Third World Law Journal 389 (2002).
  
• Cassandra Burke Robertson, Providing Access to the Future: How the Americans with Disabilities Act can Remove Barriers in Cyberspace, 79 Denver University Law Review 199 (2001).
  
• Adam M. Schloss, Web-Sight for Visually-Disabled People: Does Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act Apply to Internet Websites?, 35 Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems 35 (Fall 2001).
  
• Paul Taylor, The Americans With Disabilities Act And The Internet, 7 Boston University Journal of Science and Technology Law (2001).
  
• Jim Thatcher, Section 508 Web Accessibility Tutorial, Jimthatcher.com, at http://www.jimthatcher.com/site_resources.htm.
  
• Tara E. Thompson, Comment, Locating Discrimination: Interactive Web Sites as Public Accommodations under Title II of the Civil Rights Act, 2002 University of Chicago Legal Forum 409 (2002).
  
• Ted Wattenberg, Beyond legal compliance: Communities of advocacy that support accessible online learning, 7-2 Internet and Higher Education 123 (2004).

C. The ADA and Architectural Barriers

• Rodger W. Andersen, Architectural Barriers Legislation and the Range of Human Ability: Of Civil Rights, Missed Opportunities, and Building Codes, 28 WILLAMETTE L. REV. 525-545 (1992).
  
• D. Russell Hymas and Brett R. Parkinson, Comment, Architectural Barriers Under the ADA: An Answer to the Judiciary’s Struggle with Technical Non-Compliance, 39 California Western Law Review 349 (Spring 2003).
  
• Barbara Knecht, Accessibility Regulations and a Universal Design Philosophy Inspire the Design Process, 192 Architectural Record 145 (January 2004).
  
• Susan Koskinen, Americans with Disabilites Act and Universal Design Codes & Resources, University of California Berkeley Library (last updated July 7, 2005), available at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/ada.html.
  
• Donna McCormick, Field Guide to Complying With the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), National Association of Realtors (last updated March 2004), available at http://www.realtor.org/libweb.nsf/pages/fg716.
  
• Malcolm Pittman, ADA addresses removal of barriers in existing properties, 35-7 National Real Estate Investor 94 (July 1993).
  
• United States Access Board, Checklist for Buildings and Facilities, Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines (1991), available at
  http://www.access-board.gov/adaag/checklist/a16.html.
  
• Scott F. Uhler and Philippe R. Weiss, Library Building Alterations Under the Americans With Disabilities Act, 78-1 Illinois Libraries 5 (Winter 1996), available at http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/il960105.html.

D. Employment and the ADA

• Advice for Dealing With ADA Ambiguities, 82-2 HR Focus 2 (February 2005).
  Lisa Bee and Gerald L. Maatman Jr., Demonstrating Good Faith Helps Buyers Avoid, Win Suits By Disabled Workers, 107-5 National Underwriter / Property & Casualty Risk & Benefits Management Edition 26 (February 3, 2003).
  
• Robert Brooks and Brian H Kleiner, How to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act, 22-6/7 Equal Opportunities International 9 (June 1, 2003). [Provides a broad overview of the ADA in the employment context.]
  
• Suzanne M. Crampton and John W. Hodge, The ADA and Disability Accommodations, 32-1 Public Personnel Management 143 (Spring2003).
  
• A. J. Gorman, Libraries and the Employment of People with Disabilities, 14-2 Library Personnel News 1 (Spring 2001).
  
• Eric J. Felsberg, Conducting Job Analyses and Drafting Lawful Job Descriptions Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, 31-3 Employment Relations Today 91 (Autumn 2004).
  
• Interpreting the Americans With Disabilities Act, 6-9 Supreme Court Debates 259 (December 2003). [Discusses cases involving the Americans With Disabilities Act that were decided by the U.S. Supreme Court from 1998 to 2003.]
  
• Nonprofits still striving to comply with ADA requirements, 17-1 Staff Leader 1 (September 2003).
  
• A quick primer of disability rights law and employment, 14-2 Library Personnel News 2 (Spring 2001).
  
• Ellen M. Saideman, The ADA As A Tool For Advocacy: A Strategy For Fighting Employment Discrimination Against People With Disabilities, 8 Journal of Law and Health 47 (1993).
  
  Stanley J. Smits, Disability and Employment in the USA: the quest for best practices, 19-6 Disability & Society 647 (October 2004).
  
• Stewart J. Schwab, Reasonable Accommodation Of Workplace Disabilities, 44-3 William & Mary Law Review 1197 (Feb2003).
  
• Miranda W. Turner, Psychiatric Disabilities In The Federal Workplace: Employment Law Considerations, 55 Air Force Law Review 313 (2004).
  
• David W. Wilhelmus and Mary Tiede Wilhelmus, The influence of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family Medical Leave Act, and the Pregnancy Discrimination Act on Academic Librarianship, 16-2 Indiana Libraries 2 (1997).