Library hosts exhibition on 25th anniversary of Americans with Disabilities Act

For a video about the celebration of the ADA anniversary held at the mall outside Legislative Hall in Dover, click here.

4:50 p.m., July 15, 2015--The University of Delaware Library is hosting an exhibition titled “25th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act,” which is on view as a four-case exhibition in the Information Room of the Morris Library through Dec. 15. 

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in the areas of employment, transportation, public accommodation, communications and governmental activities. 

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Inspired in part by the civil rights legislation of the 1960s, this landmark law was signed by President George H.W. Bush on July 26, 1990. 

To commemorate this event, the University of Delaware Library Diversity Committee will present the anniversary exhibition, which will feature books, videos and other information relating to the ADA and the topic of disability rights. 

It will cover four major areas: an overview and explanation of the ADA; an overview of the disability rights movement; implementation and compliance issues; and employment and human resources information.

The exhibition was curated by the members of the University of Delaware Library Diversity Committee: Nicole Allaband, library assistant II, Access Services Department; Tammi Kim, assistant librarian, Manuscripts and Archives Department; Curtis Small, assistant librarian, Special Collections Department; and Theresa Warren, library assistant II, Multimedia Collections and Services Department. 

The exhibition also serves as a follow-up on the panel discussion “25th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act,” which took place in the Morris Library on June 3.

An online version of the exhibition also is available.

Photo freely available in the public domain through the National Archives and Records Administration