Joan Herman - Astoria City Councilor: When the Astoria Public Library opened in 1967, there was no Americans with Disabilities Act.

 When the Astoria Public Library opened in 1967, there was no Americans with Disabilities Act. If you had a physical disability, you were out of luck. If you used a wheelchair or walker and wanted an information book, you had to hope you could squeeze through the narrow aisles or ask for help.

The 1983 addition of the mezzanine made the library even more inaccessible, moving nearly half of the collection out of reach to anyone who couldn't climb the stairs. Today, three decades after the ADA’s passage, the library remains stuck in a time warp, virtually unchanged since the 1980s, with much of the collection still out of reach for those of us with physical disabilities.

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