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Access Tools

Knowsley Library Service has aimed to make it’s buildings, services and facilities as accessible as possible for everybody in the community regardless of age, ability or mobility.

Access to buildings

• Automatic doors
• Ramps
• Accessible toilets
• Chair lift to Mobile Library
• Equipment and Aids

We aim to provide aids and adaptions to make services and facilities accessible to all.

Our facilities include:

• Hearing loop systems on reception desks to improve sound quality for hearing aid users
• Minicom and textphone
• Audio cassette players and headphones
• Magnifiers to enlarge print
• Computers, with adjustable height workstations, trackerballs and touchscreen
• Closed circuit television readers (CCTV)
• Robotron scanner which reads any printed material for you
• Play equipment for children with special needs

Please contact your local branch to check which facilities are available.

Books and information

We aim to make information and resources available in a variety of formats. Visit your local library to find:

• Large print books
• Big Print weekly newspaper
• Information on tape
• Talking books
• Books to help with basic literacy and numeracy
• Information on a range of conditions and disabilities
• Information for carers

More than books

A range of items is available to groups and individuals in a care setting such as Resource and Day Centres and other care establishments. A Braille transcription service is available free to people registered as blind or partially sighted. Knowsley Library Service has also developed a number of innovative activity packs for use in residential and nursing homes.

Aimed at care professionals, the books, videos, tapes and artefacts will help you provide a range of stimulating activities for all residents.

For further details about these items, please ring 0151 426 7290 (voice and minicom) or fax 0151 546 1453.