The Blind & Vision Rehabilitation would like to offer libraries the opportunity to host a display which will cover 100 years of history and highlights using pictures and text on corporation Blind & Vision Rehabilitation Services to Pittsburgh. The structure will be about 4 feet long and will require a table for the display to rest upon. In addition to the display several Lucite boxes will house artifacts. Lastly, special glasses will accompany the materials that will allow well sighted persons to experience what it is like for those who have difficulties with their vision. Vision problems like cataracts, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, stroke, and macular degeneration will be made available for use. Hands-on artifacts might also be available for those that are interested and of course brochures for patrons to take home with them. For more information about BVRS please visit, http://www.blindvr.org/
The organization Blind & Vision Rehabilitation Services to Pittsburgh would like to place these parameters for the hosting libraries;
· The display would travel on a monthly basis, and could remain longer if requested.
· BVRS will deliver and set up the display.
· BVRS will disassemble and remove the display and take it to the next library.
· We will be happy to leave whatever the library has room for: only the Lucite containers with a brief history inside the boxes or on a small table top easel, or the display with the ancillary material.
· Speakers could be provided as well on a variety of topics such as “Age related vision loss, help is available.” We also have blind speakers who, accompanied by their guide dogs, speak about how the independence building programs at BVRS helped them toward independence, or, to children’s groups, what blindness is like.
If your library is interested in hosting the Blind & Vision Rehabilitation traveling historical display please contact Deborah Mendenhall of Blind & Vision Rehabilitation Services to Pittsburgh DMendenhall@PGHVIS.ORG or Phone: 412-368-4400, ext. 2287
· The display would travel on a monthly basis, and could remain longer if requested.
· BVRS will deliver and set up the display.
· BVRS will disassemble and remove the display and take it to the next library.
· We will be happy to leave whatever the library has room for: only the Lucite containers with a brief history inside the boxes or on a small table top easel, or the display with the ancillary material.
· Speakers could be provided as well on a variety of topics such as “Age related vision loss, help is available.” We also have blind speakers who, accompanied by their guide dogs, speak about how the independence building programs at BVRS helped them toward independence, or, to children’s groups, what blindness is like.
If your library is interested in hosting the Blind & Vision Rehabilitation traveling historical display please contact Deborah Mendenhall of Blind & Vision Rehabilitation Services to Pittsburgh DMendenhall@PGHVIS.ORG or Phone: 412-368-4400, ext. 2287
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