HAR §8-206.1-6. Library for the blind and physically handicapped services

The library for the blind and physically handicapped provides the following services: (1) Specialized library collections for those who are unable to read or handle regular print material due to a visual or physical disability. The large type collection is available to all library customers who have a valid Hawaii state public library system library card; (2) Transcribing services available to people with visual or physical disabilities. Print material not readily available in required format elsewhere may be transcribed into braille, electronic, or recorded formats; (3) Radio reading service Hawaii, a radio program established by the system for the special benefit of registered library customers of the library for the blind and physically handicapped; (4) Repair and maintenance of the National Library Service or library for the blind and physically handicapped issued equipment used by National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped customers and staff; (5) Technical assistance to the total program as well as orientation of library for the blind and physically handicapped services for library staff statewide; (6) Services to teachers or others who require information on services to eligible or potential library for the blind and physically handicapped customers; (7) Consultation and coordination of services to institutions serving individuals who are blind or physically handicapped; and (8) Informational tours of the library for the blind and physically handicapped. [Eff 1/2/96; am and comp 1/7/99; am and comp 05/24/2010] (Auth: HRS §§302A-1120, 312-1) (Imp: 2 U.S.C. §§135a, 135b; HRS §312-1) §8-206.1-7 Eligibility for use of library for the blind and physically handicapped services. The following people are eligible to use the services of the library for the blind and physically handicapped: (1) Persons whose visual acuity is 20/200 or less in the better eye with correcting glasses, or whose widest diameter of visual field subtends an angular distance no greater than 20 degrees as determined by competent authority, as defined by Public Law 89-522 or other applicable federal law; (2) Persons whose visual disability, with correction and regardless of optical measurement, is certified by competent authority as preventing the reading of standard printed material; (3) Persons certified by competent authority as unable to read or unable to use standard printed material as a result of physical limitations; and (4) Persons certified by a medical doctor as having a reading disability resulting from organic dysfunction and of sufficient severity to prevent their reading printed material in a normal manner. [Eff 1/2/96; am and comp 1/7/99; am and comp 05/24/2010] (Auth: §§302A-1120, 312-1) (Imp: 2 U.S.C. §§135a, 135b; HRS §312-1)