Training and Specialized Bibliographic Instruction‪.‬

The University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) is one of four campuses of the University of Missouri (UM). As an urban university, it is committed to serving the needs of urban society. It provides undergraduate, professional, and graduate schools, and the university's catalog states UMKC's dedication to public service related to community needs and resources. The University Library's vision statement calls for service supporting the information resources needs of UMKC and the community. In the past two years, the library has pursued fulfillment of this mission by offering improved service to students, staff, and community users with disabilities. In the past several years, the library has increased its use of automated reference resources. This includes a university- wide online catalog to the UM libraries' book and journal collections, numerous CD-ROM and online periodical indexes to materials located in libraries all over the world, and multi-media reference publications such as encyclopedias and dictionaries. Students attending UMKC pay a computer fee based on the number of credit hours for which each student is registered. These funds are monitored by a campus Computer Student Fee Committee. The Libraries have been awarded funds to provide access to electronic information resources for students by this committee. Two adaptive technology workstations with software and peripheral equipment to be used by students with vision disabilities also were provided to the campus main library, the Miller Nichols Library, by this committee. Currently, one workstation is for patrons with no vision and the other one is for patrons with limited vision. In addition to the computers which allow access to the library's CD-ROM network and online catalog, there is a scanner, a speech synthesizer, a braille printer, and a regular printer.