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Joint Meeting -- 2010 Annual Conference

  • 1.  Joint Meeting -- 2010 Annual Conference

    Posted Apr 28, 2010 09:11 AM

    The ACRL Universal Accessibility Interest Group, the LITA Accessibility Interest Group, and the ASCLA Academic Libraries Accessibility and Disability Discussion Group (ALAD) will hold a joint meeting at the ALA annual conference in Washington this summer. The meeting will be held at the MLK Jr. Memorial Library near the Convention Center. See directions below.

    Monday morning 8-10a.m. 6/28/10

    Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library

    901 G Street NW, Washington DC 20001

     Directions

    The meeting will be in the second floor east lobby and Adaptive Services Division, room 215.  Both locations are on the second floor of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library at 901 G Street NW, Washington DC 20001.  The library is at 9th and G streets, across the street from the 9th street exit of the Gallery Place Chinatown Metro.  The 11th street exit of Metro Center is also just a block and a half away.  There is no public parking in the basement of the library.  Once in the library, from the front door, you would walk to the back of the great hall and take either of the two elevators, which are located at the North West and North East corners of the great hall, up to the second floor.  The second floor east lobby is on the east side of the building in between the Arts, History and Biography division and the Young Adult Division.  The Adaptive Services Division room 215 is along the north side of the second floor.