The Traveling Wheelchair

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The Boston Public Library

700 Boylston Street
Boston MA 02116
Phone: 617-536-5400

http://www.bpl.org/

Thursday, Kevin, Kellie and I traveled to the Boston Public Library to do a wheelchair accessibility review. We were very pleased to see that the Boston Public Library is fully wheelchair accessible and especially pleased to see that this library offers many Access Services, which allows persons with disabilities to use all […]

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Fall River East End Branch Library

1386 Pleasant St.
Fall River, MA 02723
Phone: 508-324-2709

http://www.sailsinc.org/fallriver/Branches.html

After discovering that Fall River South Branch Library is not wheelchair accessible, my friends and I traveled to Fall River East End Branch Library and were pleased that it is wheelchair accessible with a few minor issues that can be easily corrected.
Parking is available on the street, yet no […]

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Fall River South Branch Library

1310 South Main Street
Fall River, MA 02724
Phone: Tel: 508-324-2708

http://www.sailsinc.org/fallriver/Branches.html

While traveling in Fall River today my friends and I came upon  the Fall River South Branch Library. We discovered that this small library is not wheelchair accessible. South Branch Library is a branch of the
Fall River Public Library, which is part of the Sails system. […]

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Newton Free Public Library

330 Homer St.
Newton Centre, 02459
Phone: 617-796-1360

www.newtonfreelibrary.net

My friends and I recently visited Newton Free Library which is part of the Minuteman Network and were very pleased to see that it is fully wheelchair accessible. There are plenty of handicap parking spaces conveniently located close to the building. There is a front entrance that has a bricked […]

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Carver Public Library

2 Meadowbrook Way
Carver, MA 02330
Phone: 508-866-3415

http://www.carverpl.org/

My friends and I visited Carver Public library to research information on local cranberry bogs and to do a wheelchair accessibility review. We were pleasantly surprised  to see that the small rural town of Carver has a fully wheelchair accessible library.

Handicap parking spaces are conveniently located right up front in the library’s parking […]

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Dennis Public Library

5 Hall Street
Dennisport, MA 02639
Phone: 508-760-6219

www.dennispubliclibrary.org
 

My friend and I went to the Dennis Public Library to do a review on its wheelchair accessibility and we were very impressed with what we saw.  The handicap parking space is very close to the wheelchair accessible ramp and the main entry doors.  The ramp leading to the entry […]

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Thomas Crane Public Library

40 Washington St.
Quincy, Mass. 02169
Phone: 617-376-1301
Website:
http://thomascranelibrary.org/

We headed to the city of Quincy yesterday to do a wheelchair accessibility review of Thomas Crane Public Library which is the main Public Library in Quincy and located on Washington Street right across the street from the Quincy Main Post Office that we found to be very wheelchair […]

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Fall River Public Library

104 North Main Street
Fall River, MA 02720
Phone: 508-324-2700  

http://www.sailsinc.org/fallriver/

Since I was in Fall River today with Tony and Kevin, my friends we decided to visit the Fall River Public Library and do a wheelchair accessibility review. Many of my friends are from Fall River and have often told me how wheelchair accessible this old historical building […]

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Concerts on the Lawn @ Plymouth Library

132 South St.
Plymouth M.A. 02360
Phone: (508) 830-4250

http://www.plymouthpubliclibrary.org/index.htm

“Concerts on the Lawn,” are held every Wednesday on the front lawn of The Plymouth Library. Upon arriving, we did not have any difficulty finding a handicap parking place. Jamie’s wheelchair maneuvered very easily onto the grass. In the front of the library, there were plenty of trees that […]

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Raynham Public Library

558 South Street
Raynham, MA 02767
Phone:  508-823-1344

http://raynhampubliclibrary.org/       
 

Recently my friends and I visited the Raynham Public Library to do a wheelchair accessibility review. We’ve been visiting various town libraries to see which ones are fully wheelchair accessible and which ones have adaptive equipment and offer specialized services for the disabled.
There is a main entry door on the […]

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