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Libraries for the Blind Section

Ulverscroft/IFLA
Best Practice Awards
2007

Press Release

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The Ulverscroft Foundation and the IFLA Libraries for the Blind Section are pleased to announce that the Foundation has agreed to provide renewed sponsorship of 20,000 GP Pounds in 2007 to continue a best practice development programme which commenced in 2003. Since then seven individuals have been sponsored to visit libraries in other countries as follows:

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South Africa United Kingdom
Norway Bosnia
United Kingdom Canada
Nigeria United Kingdom
South Africa United Kingdom
Belorussia United Kingdom
South Africa United Kingdom

In addition, the programme has funded the Ibadan University Library School to create an online union catalogue of alternative format materials in Nigeria http://www.alvi-laris.org.

This programme provides a wonderful opportunity for both personal and organisational development and both IFLA LBS and Ulverscroft wish to encourage worldwide applications from all persons and organisations interested in improving library services for visually impaired people. Whilst this will be of particular interest to special library services for the blind, applications are also welcomed from public libraries, school libraries, university and college libraries, national libraries etc…

Further details of the awards and an application form for individual awards can be found on the Ulverscroft Foundation website at http://www.foundation.ulverscroft.co.uk

Applications should be submitted by 30th November 2007.

For further details please contact:
Ulverscroft:
Joyce Sumner at j.sumner@ulverscroft.co.uk
IFLA: Lina Kouzi at lina.kouzi@ncbi.ie