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Articles published during 1997 include: "The Multi-Disability Workstation for Small Libraries" (Dick Banks and Steve Noble); "Talking Books: Toward a Digital Model" (John Cookson and others); "World Wide Access: Focus on Libraries" (Sheryl Burgstahler); "The Virtual Library: Collaborative Data Exchange and Electronic Text Delivery" (Steve Noble); "The Law and Library Access for Patrons with Disabilities" (Sarah Hawthorne); "Remote Realtime Captioning for Classroom Participation by Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students" (Jeffrey B. Bishop and Carole M. Collier); "Talking Pages: Vermont's Struggle To Provide Universal Access to Information" (Fred Jones); "EASI Expands K-12 Program" (Carmela Cunningham); "Software Review Zoomtext Xtra: Integrating Screen Magnification and Synthesized Speech" (Dick Banks); "Review: Working Together: Faculty and Students with Disabilities. A Presentation Packet Created by Do-It (Disabilities,k Opportunities, Internetworking, Technology)" Ann Neville; "Online Information and Networking" (Steve Noble); "K-12 News: The Making of the 'Whatever' Page" (Anne L. Pemberton); "Science, Technology and Math Issues for K-12 Students with Disabilities" (Carmela Cunningham); "Peer Support: What Role Can the Internet Play?" (Sheryl Burgstahler); "Project Gold: A Club for Girls with Disabilities" (Kimerly J. Wilcox); "Perspectives on Inclusion by Design: Science Curriculum Reform and Special Education" (Eric J. Pyle and Gretchen Butera); "K-12 Web Resources for Science, Engineering and Math" (Dick Banks); "Virtual Reality Tactile System for Access to Graphics" (John C.D. Nissen). Individual issues also contain news items, reviews, and calls for papers. (DB)

This document consists of all issues/pages of the electronic journal "Information Technology and Disabilities" published during 1996, i.e., a total of 13 ITD articles: (1) "New CSUF (California State University at Fullerton) Braille Transcription Center Promotes Access to Postsecondary Instructional Materials for the California State University System" (Daniel Hilton Chalfen and others); (2) "A Brief Historical Overview of Tactile and Auditory Aids for Visually Impaired Mathematics Educators and Students" (Evelyn Kubiak-Becker and others); (3) "Research Note: the Braille N Speak as a Laboratory Tool for Blind Students" (David Lunney and others); (4) "Ease of Use and Maintenance: A Note on Software Design" (Richard Plant); (5) "Adding Audio Description to Television Science Programs: What Is the Impact on Visually Impaired Viewers?" (Emilie Schmeidler); (6) "Teaching Lab Courses to Students with Disabilities" (Sheryl Burgstahler); (7) "Technology and Hands-On Strategies for Teaching Science and Mathematics to the Special Education Population" (Howard Kimmel and others); (8) "Accessible Internet Based Mathematics and Aeronautics Materials for 4th-7th Grade Children with Physical Disabilities" (Lewis E. Kraus); (9) "Teaching Science, Engineering, and Mathematics to Deaf Students: The Role of Technology in Instruction and Teacher Preparation" (Harry G. Lang); (10) "Assistive Technology and Learning Disabilities" (Carolyn Gardner); (11) "Teaching Science to the Visually Impaired: Purdue University's Visions Lab" (David Schleppenbach); (12) "Tactile Graphics: An Overview and Resource Guide" (John A. Gardner); and (13) "Computer Technology Education and the Deaf Student: Observations of Serious Nuances of Communication" (Curtis Robbins). Individual issues also contain news items, reviews, and calls for papers. (DB)

Four issues of this newsletter on information technology and disabilities (ITD) contain the following articles: "Developing an Accessible Online Public Access Catalog at the Washington Talking Book and Braille Library" (Charles Hamilton); "Assistive Technology in the Science Laboratory: A Talking Laboratory Work Station for Visually Impaired Science Students" (David Lunney); "Integrating Hypermedia and Assistive Technology: An Overview of Possibilities" (Bob Perkins); "Computer-Assisted Learning and Language-Impaired Children" (Robert Ward); "Audio Description--Seeing Theater with Your Ears" (John Miers); "Technological Access and the Law" (L. Scott Lissner); "Access to GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces): Setting Accessibility Standards for Computer Systems" (Doug Wakefield);"Maintaining Lynx to the Internet for People with Disabilities: A Call to Action" (Richard Seltzer); "Introduction: Information Technology and Access to Libraries: A Special Issue" (Tom McNulty); "Enhancing Library Service for Patrons with Disabilities through Staff Sensitivity Training and Specialized Bibliographic Instruction" (Marilyn Graubart); "The A-D-A-P-T-A-B-L-E Approach: Planning Accessible Libraries" (Alan Cantor); "The Rise of the Graphical User Interface" (Alistair D. N. Edwards); "Universal Access and the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act): A Disability Access Design Specification for the New UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles) Library On-Line Information System" (Daniel Hilton Chalfen and Sharon E. Farb); "Access to Library Internet Services for Patrons with Disabilities: Pragmatic Considerations for Developers" (Courtney Deines-Jones); "Levelling the Road Ahead: Guidelines for the Creation of WWW Pages Accessible to Blind and Visually Handicapped Users" (Judith M. Dixon); and "Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic: The Development of an Internet Accessible Online Catalog" (Steve Noble). Individual issues also contain news items, reviews, and calls for papers. (DB)

Four issues of this newsletter on information technology and disabilities (ITD) contain the following articles: "Building an Accessible CD-ROM Reference Station" (Rochelle Wyatt and Charles Hamilton); "Development of an Accessible User Interface for People Who Are Blind or Vision Impaired as Part of the Re-Computerisation of Royal Blind Society (Australia)" (Tim Noonan); "The Electronic Rehabilitation Resource Center at St. John's University (New York)" (Bob Zenhausern and Mike Holtzman); "The Clearinghouse on Computer Accommodation (COCA)" (Susan Brummel and Doug Wakefield); "ITD Technotes: Speech Synthesis" (Alistair D. N. Edwards); "Project Link: Consumer Information for Persons with Disabilities" (William C. Mann); "C-Note: A Computerized Notetaking System for Hearing Impaired Students in Mainstream Post-Secondary Education" (Andrew Cuddihy and others); "What's Next in Adaptive Technology: MagNum--A Digital Recording Personal Assistant" (Dick Banks); "Ten Years of Computer Use by Visually Impaired People in Hungary" (Terez Vaspori and Andras Arato); "Rehabilitation and Remediation in Educational Disability: The Use of the Direct Access Reading Technique" (Sheila Rosenberg and Robert Zenhausern); "ITD Technotes: Braille Displays" (Gerhard Weber); "Math and Science Symposium at Recording for the Blind" (Richard Jones); "AsTeR: Audio System for Technical Readings" (T. V. Raman); "A Graphical Calculus Course for Blind Students" (Albert A. Blank and others); "Ensuring Usability in Interface Design: A Workstation To Provide Usable Access to Mathematics for Visually Disabled Users" (Helen Cahill and John McCarthy); "Mathtalk: Usable Access to Mathematics" (Robert D. Stevens and Alistair D. N. Edwards); "The Use of Laser Stereolithography To Produce Three-Dimensional Tactile Molecular Models for Blind and Visually Impaired Scientists and Students" (William J. Skawinski and others); "Computer Based Science Assessment: Implications for Learning Disabled Students" (David D. Kumar); "Books for Blind Students: The Technological Requirements of Accessibility" (William A. Barry and others); and "Increasing the Representation of People with Disabilities in Science, Engineering and Mathematics" (Sheryl Burgstahler). Individual issues also contain new items, reviews, and calls for papers. (DB)