Southern York County Life

Help for sight-impaired

The Board of Directors of Mason-Dixon Public Library, Stewartstown, PA, recently announced the acquisition of a closed circuit television sight enhancement system. The system, known as CCTV, is for use by sight-impaired patrons.

Helen Williams, of Stewartstown, donated the system in memory of her late husband, Maurice. She explained that the CCTV can be used for reading all kinds of documents or used to view coins, stamps and photographs. The system may also be used to magnify documents as they are being written. Patrons with diminished vision may now use this CCTV system at the library for these many functions.

Maurice Williams owned and operated Wiley’s Food Market of Stewartstown from 1961 to 1978. He was dedicated to sight conservation through his 44 years of membership in the Stewartstown Lions Club and their vision projects. He used this system for the last 13 years of his life because of a degenerative eye disease.

Mason-Dixon Public Library moved into a new facility at 250 Bailey Drive, Stewartstown, in 2004. Because of the larger facilities and benefactors such as Helen Williams, the library is now able to offer greatly expanded services to patrons. The library also offers a collection of large-print books and magazines, and books on tape.

Source: The York Dispatch (we obtain permission for external material)
Posted by Dan Baldwin on 12/19/2005 at 11:05 AM in News

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