Contact

Students requiring service modifications should contact Evelyn Lester, Director of Disability Services, 315-228-7375, or elester@colgate.edu. 

Borrowing Services (Circulation, Reserves, Borrowing from Other Libraries)

• Learning Ally membership and digitization of materials (alternative formats) are available through the Director of Student Disability Services.
• Extended loan periods.
• Dorm or office delivery of materials.  
• Help getting material from the shelves.
• Renewal of materials by phone or online.
• Checkout of equipment (noise-cancelling headphones, high quality microphone, USB drive with screen-reader program).

Building Access

• Case-Geyer: Reserved parking spaces are available near the Level 3 entrance on the East parking lot (facing Admissions/JB Colgate building). The lower-lot (West) near JC Colgate and Little Hall also has reserved parking; however there is a steep ramp to reach the Level 3 entrance. The Level 5 entrance has a steep ramp leading to the bridge.
• Cooley: There are reserved parking spaces available on Academic Drive, near the entrance of the library.
• Floor plans of the libraries’ spaces are available online, as well as in directories throughout the building, and paper fliers are available at the service desks.
• An adjustable height table is available on level 3 of Case-Geyer.

Bathrooms

• Every floor in Case-Geyer has a fully compliant ADA accessible stall in the men’s and women’s bathrooms, located on the West side of the building. Level 4 also has a gender-neutral single stall bathroom with locking door and extra space for mobility. It is located directly across from the West-side elevator on Level 4. 
• Cooley Science Library has a fully compliant ADA stall in the bathrooms outside of library entrance in the basement of McGregory.

Accessible Technology Workroom

Case-Geyer room 555D contains two computers with extra assistive technology hardware and software. The room can be reserved through a Standard Room Request on EMS, and the room key is checked out at the Circulation Desk on Level 3. The space is sound-proofed more than other rooms in the library, and can be used as a quiet space for decompression.

Video Magnification:

• Large screen TV with remote
• Document Magnifier with multiple settings

PC:

• 24" high-resolution monitor
• ZoomText Large Print Keyboard
• Sennheiser PC131 headsets (headphones and microphone)
• Epson Scan
• Windows 10 Enterprise 64bit
• Dragon NaturallySpeaking Home Edition voice recognition software, version 12
• ABBYY FineReader Pro 12 (includes support for Arabic and other languages)
• Inspiration 9.0.3 for mindmapping
• NVDA Screen Reader

iMac:

• 27" high-resolution monitor
• MacOS X Big Sur
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Built-in Accessibility options (dictation, VoiceOver, etc.)

A scanner is available in the room for conversion of printed text to digital.  2 Noise Cancelling headphones are available for checkout at the Circulation Desk on Level 3. Other equipment circulate through ITS.