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<p class="x_MsoNormal">IMLS posts each state’s evaluation and it is my understanding that they would remediate each copy that wasn’t fully accessible before posting. That might be an easy work around?</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">We of course post our Five-Year Plan, but we don’t post the evaluation. I do message out to the MI library community on the evaluation, the process and the results, but I don’t post the final doc. No one has ever complained about that.
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<b>Subject:</b> [lstac] Accessibility of past third party evalutations?</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">I am wondering if you were successful in getting accessible copies of the last third party evaluation? </span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">We have always made this evaluations public on our LSTA libguide pages but we now cannot have a document like our last evaluation online in its current form.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">What has been your procedure? Have you reached out to the evaluation vendor asked them to provide an accessible copy?</span></p>
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