Disability Support Services
Information for patrons with disabilities about the resources in Morris Library to aid them.
Morris Library offers a number of services to disabled patrons.
Retrieval and help with photocopying of materials in the library
Contact the first floor Information Desk to use this service.
Research assistance
Contact the first floor Information Desk to use this service.
Assistive technology in the DSS Room
The DSS Room (Room 103M) on the first floor of Morris Library is open the same hours as the Information Desk (View the hours). The room offers the following equipment:
Hardware
- Two Pentium computers
- Two 21-inch monitors
- Two sound cards with speakers
- Two 100mb zip drives
- One laser printer
- One Braille printer
- One flat bed scanner
- One Read-Scanner
- One Brailler
- One headset microphone (checkout at the Reserve Desk)
- One cassette player
- One CCTV
First computer, specialty software
- Connect OutLoud Version 2.0
- IBM Via Voice TTS Runtime Version 6.403 – US English
- Jaws Version 7.5
- OpenBook Version 7.0
- Via Voice OutLoud Version 4.0
- WinBraille Version 3.13
- ZoomText 8.1
Second computer, specialty software
For help with disability support issues in Morris Library please contact David Schremp (phone: (618) 453-3028; dschremp@lib.siu.edu).
Patrons who need in-depth training in using the software should contact the SIUC DSS office (phone: (618) 453-5738). If DSS is unable to provide training, Morris Library can provide training, though not as in-depth as that provided by DSS.
