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Since 1969, the Kentucky Talking Book Library has provided audio and Braille materials free to persons with visual, physical, and reading disabilities. Materials are sent by postage-free mail or downloaded from the internet. This service is part of National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. [4]
Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published". Created by Aaron Swartz, [3] [4] Brewster Kahle, [5] Alexis Rossi, [6] Anand Chitipothu, [6] and Rebecca Hargrave Malamud, [6] Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization.
Louisville finally achieved its goal of opening its first free public library. Books were accumulated through defunct libraries, and placed in its collection. The building's name was changed to Library Hall. This four-story building, located on Fourth Street, offered spaces for the library, museum, classrooms and Festival Hall.
Human rights is a professional ethic that informs the practice of librarianship. [8] The American Library Association (ALA), the profession's voice in the U.S., defines the core values of librarianship as information access, confidentiality/privacy, democracy, diversity, education and lifelong learning, intellectual freedom, preservation, the public good, professionalism, service and social ...
It is headquartered in Prospect, Kentucky. [1] It was founded on June 28, 1906, in Louisville, Kentucky with 52 charter members. [2] [3] Its original goal was to form a state library commission as well as to increase access to free state documents. [3] William Frederick Yust was elected as the association's first president.
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Intellectual freedom encompasses many areas including issues of academic freedom, Internet filtering, and censorship. [4] Because proponents of intellectual freedom value an individual's right to choose informational concepts and media to formulate thought and opinion without repercussion, restrictions to access and barriers to privacy of information constitute intellectual freedom issues.
Driven to Distraction (ADHD), a 1994 book on Attention Deficit Disorder by Edward Hallowell and John Ratey; Driven to Distraction (2009), a collection of car reviews published by Jeremy Clarkson; Driven to Distraction (Inspector Morse TV-episode)