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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> LYRASIS <lyrasis@lyrasis.ccsend.com>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>LYRASIS<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 17, 2019 1:17 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Carleton, Janet <carleton@ohio.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Press Release: LYRASIS Announces the Release of a New Study, Understanding the Landscape of Library Accessibility for Online Materials<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#19388A">LYRASIS Announces the Release of a New Study, Understanding the Landscape of Library Accessibility</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#19388A">for Online Materials</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">LYRASIS announces the release of a new study, "Understanding the Landscape of Library Accessibility for Online Materials". The study was undertaken in an effort to
map the landscape of accessibility policies and practices for online resources as managed by libraries and archives across the United States. The study can be accessed on the LYRASIS
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Authored by Hannah Rosen, LYRASIS Scholarly Communication Specialist and Digitization Program Coordinator, and Jill Grogg, Strategist for the Content and Scholarly
Communication Initiatives team, the study is based on a survey <span style="background:white">
conducted in early 2019 as a mechanism to better understand how (primarily academic) libraries within the United States are handling accessibility for their online content, and more specifically, where they stand in terms of policy and implementation. </span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Key findings of the study include:</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Celeste Feather, Senior Director of Content and Scholarly Communication Initiatives at LYRASIS, says of the report, "This study is an important piece
of the work LYRASIS is doing to understand the needs of collections holding institutions across the country, and helps unite libraries in their efforts to make materials more accessible to their users and communities. Our goal is to leverage the reach we have
at LYRASIS, with more than 1,000 members, to help build conversations around these vital topics and use our research abilities to inform the wider community about these important trends and best practices."</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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