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 …

Purpose Accessibility and inclusion are at the very core of what libraries are all about and
libraries and librarians have an essential, catalytic role to play in facilitating the full …

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 …

This paper discusses the development and implementation of the VISUNET: CANADA
Partners Program, an innovative, cooperative model of library service for blind and print …

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 …

Since 1996 public library services for the visually impaired round the world work closely with
the ITC and the publishing industry in the DAISY consortium (www. daisy. org) towards …

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 …

Library services for blind and visually impaired people (VIPs) have been inextricably tied up
with alternative format production, which has never risen above 4 percent of standard-text …

Purpose This chapter introduces the role that libraries have played in the struggle for equity
and access for people with disabilities. It explores the historical evolution of the library and …

Reports the key findings from a project, undertaken by the Library and Information Statistics
Unit, Loughborough University (LISU) and funded by Resource: The Council for Museums …