The Alliance Library System Presents

A Statewide Series of Free

Audio Description Workshops

 

Conducted by Tom Peters of TAP Information Services

Part of Audio Description Illinois (http://www.alsaudioillinois.net)

What is Audio Description?  Audio Description (AD) is a narrative technique that makes visual images more accessible to blind and low-vision people by producing audible written descriptions of non-verbal visual information, such as digital photographs, television programs, motion pictures, and live events.  This series of workshops will focus on uses of audio description by libraries with digital image collections, image-intensive websites, etc. 

Who Should Attend?  Everyone is welcome to attend, especially representatives from organizations that have received (or are considering apply for) digital imaging grants from the Illinois State Library. 

Note:  This is a Working Workshop!  We will be creating and recording real audio descriptions during this workshop.  You may take the audio description you create back to your library and integrate it into your library website, collection of digital images, etc. 

 

Please bring a photograph (the original -- only if it is safe and secure to do so -- or a copy, or a digital image) for which you want to have an audio description created that you can use. 

Schedule of In-Person and Online Workshops:
  

  • Joliet:  Tuesday, November 18, 2008 1:00 to 4:00 Central at the Black Road Branch of the Joliet Public Library, 3395 Black Road
  • Online via OPAL:  Wednesday, February 11, 2009 1:00 to 4:00 Central in the OPAL Online Auditorium (www.opal-online.org)
  • East Peoria:  Tuesday, March 10, 2009 1:00 to 4:00 Central at the Alliance Library System offices, 600 High Point Lane
  • Springfield:  Thursday, March 19, 2009 1:00 to 4:00 Central at the Lincoln Library, the Public Library of Springfield, 326 South 7th Street
  • Champaign:  Tuesday, April 7, 2009 1:00 to 4:00 Central at the Lincoln Trail Libraries System offices, 1704 West Interstate Drive
  • Chicago:  Wednesday, April 8, 2009 from 9:30 to 12:30 Central at the Chicago office of the Metropolitan Library System, 224 S. Michigan Ave.    
  • Online via OPAL:  Thursday, April 30, 2009 1:00 to 4:00 Central in the OPAL Online Auditorium (www.opal-online.org)

 

Registration is Free, Online, and Easy:  http://tinyurl.com/3cfvc2

This series of workshops is made possible by an LSTA Grant administered by the Illinois State Library, Jesse White, Secretary of State and State Librarian