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Dear Heather, Is this not something to discuss with your health and safety people and your security/fire personnel? What is your policy on fire evacuation procedures? And who is responsible? Regards, Loretto. At 11:31 20/11/97 +0000, you wrote: >I have just taken on the role of Librarian with special responsibilities >for disabled readers and have been asked as a matter of some urgency to >look into ways of alerting deaf users when there is a fire alarm. One of >our students is using a study room so would be totally unaware if the >alarm sounded as she would not even see people leaving the floor in >droves. I have been told about Deaf Alerter which seems like a good idea >(and for which I might be able to get some money) but would be grateful >for any other suggestions and/or feedback about the effectiveness of the >Deaf Alerter system. The Library is on 4 floors and always very busy so >it would be quite impractical for someone to go round all the study rooms. >Thanks for any help you can give >Heather Bailey >Bristol University Library >[log in to unmask] > > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%