Abstract The United Kingdom has an unplanned, mixed library economy of services for
visually impaired people compared with other developed countries. This article sets out the …

In 1998, the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) made available a£ 200,000
grant through the Library and Information Commission (LIC) to ensure that blind and visually …

Visually impaired people have the same library and information needs as everyone else,
although they may require adaptations in the form of service. Digital services offer new …

Reports results of a questionnaire survey of UK public library services, undertaken at the
end of 1999 by the Library and Information Statistics Unit (LISU), Loughborough University …

This paper reports on a 1999 study of services to visually impaired users in United Kingdom
(UK) public libraries. Data were gathered using a mail questionnaire survey of all UK public …

The provision of library resources for visually impaired students in the further education
sector was investigated, and the effect the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act …

The article focuses on an institution working to improve library and information services in
the Great Britain for visually impaired people. In 1989, a blind senior employee of the Royal …

The provision of information services to the visually impaired is by no means a new
discipline—libraries, for instance, have been making material available to visually impaired …

The Integrated Accessible Library: A model of service development for the 21st century
makes the case for a national initiative to make all library and information services …

The UK Public Library Service has been in the news lately, but for all the wrong reasons.
The service offered to customers/users has been steadily declining in recent years as local …