The Traveling Wheelchair

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]