Meet The Librarian Advocating For Assistive Technology

James Patrick Timony

On a recent Tuesday night, I arrived at the Library Express for a meeting no one was likely to attend.

Called Tech Talk Tuesday, the meeting helps people with low vision or low hearing learn how to text, use Excel or learn tech skills. Unfortunately, just getting to the library requires more assistance than most members can regularly access. Organizer James Patrick Timony hopes to change that.

Timony has worked as an adaptive tech (AT) librarian at the D.C. Public Library for the last 13 years. For the last nine years, he’s organized Tech Talk Tuesday meetings and led outgrowth projects like the 2011 Accessibility Hackathon. Now he sees a need for a permanent restructuring.

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