Library for the Blind and
Physically Handicapped

CLASS ~ Columbus Library for Accessible Services
“A Library at Your Door”

If you are a child or adult who can’t read materials printed by conventional methods, you may qualify for a free public library service.

CLASS serves as one of the Georgia subregional distribution centers for books and magazines on audiocassettes published by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, a division of the Library of Congress.

CLASS has a collection of more than 20,000 items and receives 200 new items each month. Included are best sellers by such popular authors as Danielle Steele and Stephen King, as well as a large number of romance, mystery, western, science fiction and biography books.

If you qualify for the service, you can select and receive your material through the mail, or, if you prefer, you can visit CLASS at the Columbus Public Library to choose your tapes. All materials may be returned through the mail, free of charge, or at the library.

We also maintain catalogs that specialize in providing devices to assist people with disabilities to read or perform daily tasks, and our staff is available to answer your questions or assist as needed.

DO YOU QUALIFY?
Our services are available to you if you live in one of the twelve West Georgia counties listed following this notice. You must also have one or more of the following conditions:

Visual impairment, permanent or temporary, that prevents you from reading standard print. (Ex: blindness, surgery on one or both eyes, blurred vision or failing eyesight because of age, medications, or other causes.)

A Physical limitation, permanent or temporary, that prevents you from holding standard print materials. (Ex: paralysis, stroke, arthritis, and any other condition or injury that limits the use of the hands and/or arms.

A Reading disability of such severity that you are not able to read standard print.

Serving Chattahoochee, Coweta, Harris, Marion, Meriwether, Muscogee, Quitman, Stewart, Talbot, Taylor, Troup and Upson Counties

For additional information Call:
706-243-2669

Columbus Library for Accessible Services
3000 Macon Rd.
Columbus, GA 31906