Welcome to our Library

Vancouver, WA – Spring & Summer 2007—

The Washington State School for the Blind (WSSB) Library underwent a huge renovation in order to add new books, redefine the educational focus and create a more user friendly space.  All of the library sections were scrutinized over in order to pare out our aged and treasured items as well as retire books not used by our PreK-12 students. 

Picture: Center of Library

Picture: Fiction Section Picture: Northwest Studies area

 

The creation of a new Rare Book Room enabled our most beloved copies a place to protectively rest their pages away from the more oftPicture: Rare book room shuffled books.  This has been a special treat for those that wander into home of retro Braille formatted plays by Shakespeare, early Rudyard Kipling and Depression era books by Louisa May Alcott.

Most notably, the new library system has involved a careful integration of audio, braille and print products.  So to keep our patrons on the track of finding useful media, the braille, print and audio partners can now be found side-by-side in the shelf.  For example:

Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen

Text Box: Hatchet   Paulsen           IC PAU   Text Box: Hatchet   Paulsen   Vol. 1   A FIC PAU   Text Box: Hatchet   Paulsen   LP FIC PAU   Text Box: Hatchet   Paulsen   P FIC PAU   Text Box: Hatchet   Paulsen   Vol. 2   A FIC PAU   Text Box: Hatchet   Paulsen   A FIC PAU  

 

 

 

 

    Cassette        CD         Braille     Braille       Large Print     Print

Call numbers:

  Cassette          CD        Braille     Braille       Large Print     Print

       A                   A           B              B                   LP         P

      FIC              FIC         FIC           FIC              FIC        FIC

      PAU             PAU       PAU         PAU             PAU       PAU