The Traveling Wheelchair

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

12 Pleasant Street
Taunton, MA 02780

http://www.tauntonlibrary.org/

I’ve been asked to review the Libraries in Massachusetts by a person at the State Board of Library Commissioners who oversees the grants to Libraries to improve services for people with disabilities. I decided to start with the libraries in my area. The Taunton Library is only ten minutes from my home. […]

4 Precinct Street
Lakeville, Massachusetts  02347
Phone: 508-947-9028     

http://www.lakevillelibrary.org/

The old Lakeville Library, which is now ‘Somethin’s Brewin Book and Café’ (see that review) was not all accessible so I decided to visit the new Lakeville Library which opened in 2005.  The new Library is a beautiful one story building with very nice landscaping all around it. There are […]

Middleborough Public Library
102 North Main Street
Middleborough, MA  02346
Phone: 508-946-2470

http://www.midlib.org/
 

I decided to visit some local libraries and write wheelchair accessibility reviews. I first went to the Middleboro Library which I have been to many times but not to look at accessibility issues. First thing I noticed was that the handicapped parking spaces were right up front and convenient to […]