My Library.

[princesslily]

I've been prepping for DS'staffing meeting, and I noticed something this morning. I enjoy supporting our local library, and wanted to see about checking out some books. When I did a search, there aren't any books about naviating the school system and IEPs. There are only self-help books for parents, but as far as any Wrightslaw books...nothing.

How are your local libraries with suppling books like these? To me, its a little bizarre that there's nothing.

Oh well, Im off to Amazon.

[mrsbuttinski]

I live in the midst of an unusual library situation.

We have county free libraries, but my town doesn't have a branch. We have a subscription library company founded in 1760. The next town over has a tiny village community library housed in the old one room schoolhouse and staffed entirely by volunteers. I can order anything held in the county through them. The county seat has a decent selection of books. But the best collection of books about special education and disabilities is the one donated by a local residential treatment facility about 10 miles south of here- they have a lot of resources available.

[cam]

Our library is part of a system throughout my very rural corner of the state. If I am looking for a book they don't have at my local library, they send it from within the system if the system has it at another branch. If it is not in the system, they contact other systems and check it out from the other system on my behalf and have it shipped to my local branch. They can't access every book in existence I am sure, but every book I have requested in the past has been found. Soon I plan to have them search for a book that has so far seemed like a unicorn - I saw it mentioned in an article but can't find any information on the actual book after a few hours of internet searching three library systems, several book stores, Amazon, and just basic search engine searching, so I may not have such luck this time.

[theycallmemommy]

I'm in a medium size area (few hundred thousand) and one of our local hospitals just sent out letters to the community saying that they would like to create a lending library for multiple special needs circumstances.

They specifically mentioned ASD and ADHD in their story examples. I think they were trying to explain the need for resources for people navigating their new reality. They were seeking donations to make it possible. I think I am on their mailing list because I attended anew autism conference with keynote speaker temple grandin. Anyway I think it is a good idea but I am more of a googler/cconsult with his therapist type.

[numbbears]

My library has a lot of special needs books and a few on advocacy and IEPs. I think they have a pretty big budget for ordering books though. Anytime I haven't been able to find a book and it's not at any of the other branches, they'll either check with partner libraries across to state to borrow it or most of the time just go ahead and order it.

[olivegoose]

We have an enormous library system, so via online books and the actual paper books we have a halfway decent selection.

[anintrovert]

I just searched my county catalogue and they have Emotions to Advocacy at the closest branch but it appears that they only have one copy.

I have cards to 4 different library systems
1) my county which has 10 branches ranging from a 5 minute drive to a 50 minute in no traffic drive. I can request from anywhere and have it delivered to the closest library within a few days.
2)my city which has 2 branches. They both about 15-20 minutes away
3) the suburb north of me. They have one really nice branch. They about 15-20 minutes away
4) major city library system (I live in a suburb of it). 26 branches the closest is about 20 minutes away

They all also have ebooks I can check out to my kindle. Some use the same database so there''s two electronic catalogues I have access to.

[princesslily]

I ended up ordering from Amazon, I even went as far as calling our local childrebs hospital to see if they have books for the public - nope.

Oh well. Thanks everyone. I imagine if I move to a northern state, I may have had better luck finding material. Friken Florida.

[mrsbuttinski]

Mar 9, 2015 5:26:56 GMT -5 princesslily said:

I ended up ordering from Amazon, I even went as far as calling our local childrebs hospital to see if they have books for the public - nope.

Oh well. Thanks everyone. I imagine if I move to a northern state, I may have had better luck finding material. Friken Florida.

Do you have a local support group? Sometimes they have small lending libraries.

Another option is to look into whether there's a local state or community college that allows residents to check out books. Our community college has a ECE program that runs a traditional and a SN preschool. The library there has a good selection of books on special needs and special education. The card is free. 

LOL, I was kind of surprised by how decent my mom's local library is. I was surprised by how much they had about ASD until I realized they're practically across the street from what may be the only "Asperger College" in the U.S. Go Navigators!