Recording Services for the Visually Handicapped/Recording Services for the Visually Impaired, 1958-2005

Access and use

Location of collection:
Mary Riley Styles Public Library
Mary Riley Styles Public Library
120 North Virginia Avenue
Falls Church, VA 22046
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Peter Sullivan
Phone: (703) 248-5030

Summary

Extent:
2 boxes
Language:
Materials in this collection are in English .

Background

Scope and content:

The files were organized into six series: Series 1 has the articles of incorporation and by-laws as well as a list of their board of directors. Board meeting minutes comprise Series 2 (although not a complete set) and correspondence is in Series 3. Series 4 has the subject files and Series 5 hold the newsletters. The newsletters are often referred to as Annual Reports. Newspaper clippings, photographs and a floppy disc make up Series 5 through 7.

Speeches relating the history of the RSVH can be found in the Subject files in the folder labeled Speakers (RG 4-5-4-10).

Biographical / historical:

The Recording Services for the Visually Handicapped (RSVH), now the Recording Services for the Visually Impaired (RSVI), was a volunteer group that recorded textbooks and other academic materials for visually impaired students. For many years they had an office in the Falls Church Public Library (now the Mary Riley Styles Public Library).

The recording group was started as the Northern Virginia Recording Group in 1958 by the Falls Church Junior Woman's Club. In 1963 the Recording Services for the Visually Handicapped was incorporated by the State of Virginia as an independent organization. The name was changed to the Recording Services for the Visually Impaired in 2003.

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Arrangement:

The meeting minutes, correspondence and newsletters were arranged in chronological order. The subject files are in alphabetical order.