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<p class="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?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Reish, Karren (MDE) via lstac<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 16, 2026 9:15 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Christine Gauvreau <Christine.Gauvreau@ct.gov>; LSTA Coordinators Listserv <lstac@omls.oregon.gov><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [External] Re: [lstac] Accessibility of past third party evalutations?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="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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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Karren Reish<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Christine Gauvreau via lstac<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 16, 2026 9:10 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> LSTA Coordinators Listserv <<a href="mailto:lstac@omls.oregon.gov">lstac@omls.oregon.gov</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [lstac] Accessibility of past third party evalutations?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="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? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="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?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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