About the Library Services to People with Special Needs Section
Established in 1931 Previously called: Libraries Serving Disadvantaged Persons
The Section for Library Services to People with Special Needs is concerned with library and information services to all those groups within the community who for whatever reason are unable to make use of conventional library services. These groups include people in hospitals and prisons, the elderly in nursing homes and care facilities, the house-bound, the deaf and the physically and developmentally disabled. This Section provides an international forum for the discussion of ideas, sharing of experiences and development of projects designed to promote and improve the effectiveness of library and information services to such groups, and the promotion of national and international cooperation at all levels.
Useful Addresses
Chair/Treasurer:
Moseid Tone Eli
Senior Adviser
Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authority
Box 8145 DEP
N-0033 OSLO
Norway
Tel. +(47)23117500
Fax +(47)23117501
E-mail: tone.moseid@abm-utvikling.no
Secretary:
Mortensen, Helle Arendrup
Assistant Librarian
Lyngby-Taarbaek Kommunes Biblioteker
Lyngby Hovedgade 28
2800 Kgs Lyngby, Denmark
Tel. +(45)45973700
Fax +(45)45973702
E-mail: hmo@ltk.dk
Information Coordinator/Editor of Newsletter:
Forrest, Margaret
Academic Liaison Librarian
School of History, Classics and Archaeology
University of Edinburgh
William Robertson Building 50 George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9YJ
e-mail: margaret.forrest@ed.ac.uk
Section Archive: Libraries Serving Disadvantaged Persons
Last update: 4 November 2009