Are there physical barriers that prevent you or someone you know from visiting and fully enjoying the library? The Yankton Community Library is looking for members from our community to share their perspectives and experiences on the accessibility of the library for folks with physical disabilities. Participants will be entered into a drawing to win a gift card from local businesses.

Join library staff, City of Yankton’s building official, and a representative from South Dakota Rehabilitation at the library on Thursday, August 3 at 6:30 pm, or Friday, August 4 at 10 am, to learn more about the library’s proposed project funded by the Libraries Transforming Communities: Accessible Small and Rural Communities initiative from the American Library Association (ALA), and engage in a conversation about increasing physical accessibility at the library. The proposed plan would automate a set of doors on the library’s east entry and remodel the current inclusive bathroom to make the space easier to navigate. Light refreshments will be served.

There are several ways to participate in the conversation if you can’t join us in person.

1. You can call the library or stop in and ask for Dana or Kelly.
2. You can email Dana at dschmidt@cityofyankton.org, or Kelly at kodea@cityofyankton.org.
3. You can fill out an online form at https://forms.gle/D8mzC86SFAzRynFM9.

The Yankton Community Library was selected as one of 240 libraries to participate in Libraries Transforming Communities: Accessible Small and Rural Communities, an ALA initiative that provides community engagement and accessibility resources to small and rural libraries to help them better serve people with disabilities. Since 2014, ALA’s Libraries Transforming Communities initiative has re-imagined the role libraries play in supporting communities.