Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities Section

Date

8-9 August 2012

Location

Nordic Hotel Forum, Tallinn, Estonia

Organisation

This IFLA WLIC 2012 preconference is organised by IFLA Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities Section (LPD) in cooperation with the Estonian Reading Association and the Estonian Library for the Blind.

Objectives

The conference will highlight the importance of delivering special library services for children and youngsters with print disabilities (e.g. visual impairment) or reading difficulties (e.g. dyslexia) and show you how to improve your services through co-operation and partnership with schools and reading associations.

Topics

Have you developed and delivered an innovative service for blind, partially sighted, dyslexic or otherwise print disabled child or teenager? Why did you do it? What was different about it? Who was involved? What was the result? Could you inform and inspire an international audience in just 15 minutes?

Submission guidelines

Papers should be written and presented in English.

Please submit your proposals to:

Geert Ruebens geert.ruebens@luisterpuntbibliotheek.be and Marja Kivihall marja@epr.ee

Please include

• title of your paper
• abstract answering the questions above in max. 300 words
• speaker’s name, professional affiliation, postal address, email address and brief biographical note and a photo of yourself

Important dates

All proposals must be in by 1 February 2012.
Proposals will be evaluated by the conference steering group and successful applicants will be informed by 1 March 2012.

Please note

All expenses, including registration for the conference, travel, accommodation etc., are the responsibility of the authors/presenters. No financial support can be provided by IFLA, but a special invitation can be issued to authors.

Congress Attendance Grants

The Finnish National Committee and IFLA have worked hard to secure funds for Conference Participation Grants. Up-to-date information is available on our Conference Participation Grants webpage.