Theme: Readers with special needs, their library service needs and experiences

09.00 Introduction

Sue Lithgow SLSDP, Beatrice Christensen Sköld SLB

09.15 The Disability Discrimination Act in the UK

Cathy Evans

10.00 The Needs of Information of the Deaf Blind Reader

Shinichiro Kadokawa, Chairman of the Osaka Deafblind Friends Association, Japan

10.40 Large print in the Netherlands

Marij Schols, Nederlandse Luister en Braillebibliotheek (the Dutch Library of Audio and Braille)

11.10 New technology and the elderly

Dr Britt Östlund of the University of Linköping, Sweden

12.00 Lunch

13.00 Reading representatives - a model for library service to Easy-to-read-customers

Bror Tronbacke and Lotta Rosenström, The Easy-to-read Foundation, Sweden

13.50 The Mediatechque of La cité in Paris

Marie-Pierre Tallec

14.40 Panel discussion

The above speakers and the auditorium

15.30 Conclusion

Sue Lithgow and Beatrice Christensen Sköld

The 64th IFLA General Conference, Amsterdam, 1998

Readers with special needs: their needs and experiences of library services

Registration Form

The IFLA Sections for the Blind and Libraries Serving Disadvantaged Persons are jointly running a full day workshop on readers with special needs. The workshop is primarily user based and will concentrate on the individual needs and experiences of a range of readers with special needs from within the community. Topics for discussion will include disability legislation, the needs of the deaf blind reader, large print and easy-to-read publications.

If you are interested in participating in this workshop, please complete this registration form and return it to the stated address by June 30, 1998.

Name:.......................................................................

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Address:....................................................................

City:................................     Country:..........................

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Please return by June 30, 1998
to Sue Lithgow, fax +44 (0) 1970.622190

For further information please contact the workshop organisers:

Sue Lithgow
Chair, Section for Libraries Serving Disadvantaged Persons

E-mail sdl994@aber.ac.uk
Beatrice Christensen Sköld,
Chair, Section of Libraries for the Blind

E-mail bea.christensen@tpb.se