Content tagged Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
Ordered by publication date from most to less recent.
(These results include any available translations of the original English documents.)
- Ensuring Equality: IFLA Submits Comments to New Zealand Marrakesh Treaty Implementation Consultation
Following a call for comments by the government of New Zealand Te Aotearoa on draft legislation designed to implement the Marrakesh Treaty, IFLA has made a submission. This highlights the need to...
News - 8 February 2019
Tags: Access to information, Library services to people with disabilities, Marrakesh Treaty, New Zealand, Services to the visually impaired, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Seminar on Implementing the Marrakesh Treaty
The Marrakesh Treaty has come into force in many countries. What is the Marrakesh Treaty and what does it mean for libraries in practice? Join us for an international seminar in the new Helsinki...
Event - 7 February 2019
Tags: Marrakesh Treaty, Seminar, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- IFLA, EIFL Congratulate Thailand on Copyright Reforms for People with Print Disabilities
IFLA and EIFL have addressed a letter of congratulation to the Prime Minister of Thailand, following the passage of legislation that will bring the country into line with the Marrakesh...
News - 19 December 2018
Tags: Access to information, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Marrakesh Treaty, Thailand, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Minutes of Meetings
2019: Athens, Greece 2019: Helsinki, Finland 2018: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2018: Midyear Meeting, Brussels, Belgium 2017: Wroclaw, Poland...
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Giving Access in the Arab World: IFLA Speaks at Dubai Workshop on the Marrakesh Treaty
The Marrakesh Treaty, which aims to remove unnecessary copyright-related barriers to making and sharing accessible copies of books. To date, only two Arab-language countries have ratified this,...
News - 19 March 2018
Tags: Access to knowledge, Copyright, United Arab Emirates, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Seminar on Implementing the Marrakesh Treaty
There is strong and welcome progress on the implementation of the Marrakesh Treaty around the world. With formal ratification, and the associated changes to domestic laws, the world is moving...
Event - 26 February 2018
Tags: Access to information, Copyright, Marrakesh Treaty, Seminar, United Arab Emirates, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Symposium: Guidelines for library services to persons with print disabilities
Luisterpunt and the IFLA Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities Section are organising an international symposium on the necessity (or not) of guidelines for public...
Event - 21 February 2018
Tags: Belgium, Event, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- LPD Symposium: Guidelines 2.0 for public libraries and persons with print disabilities
We have chosen to open other doors and to link – for us – new target groups to the usefulness (or not) of guidelines 2.0 for public libraries. Yes, for public libraries, because in...
News - 25 January 2018
Tags: Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Getting It Right: At Second Marrakesh Assembly, IFLA Launches Guide to Implementing the Treaty in Europe
Following agreement in the European Union on legislation to implement the Marrakesh Treaty, Member States now have a year to comply. By 11 October 2018, all 28 countries need to give people who...
News - 5 October 2017
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Europe, Marrakesh Treaty, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Implementing Marrakesh in Europe - A Guide
With European Union (EU) legislation implementing the Marrakesh Treaty now published, Member States now have a clear deadline for making the Treaty's provisions a reality in national law. The...
Publication - 1 October 2017
Tags: Europe, Libraries serving persons with print disabilities, Marrakesh Treaty, Print disabilities, Guidelines, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Symposium on the Way Forward for an Egyptian Ratification of the Marrakech Treaty
Symposium on the Way Forward for an Egyptian Ratification of the Marrakech Treaty Venue: Bibliotheca Alexandrina Date: Sunday, 12 February 2017 The objective is to bring together...
News - 27 January 2017
Tags: Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- LPD Satellite Conference: Tailoring the Reading Experience to meet Individual Needs. 11-12 August 2016, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
Papers presented: Why Braille by Karen Keninger, Director, National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of congress, United States of America...
Informational Page - 30 August 2016
Tags: Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- LPD Statement VITreaty 2016
The members of IFLA's Section for Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities, comprising 80 library organizations, also represent the views of many other organizations such as...
Publication - 16 June 2016
Tags: Publications, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Tailoring the Reading Experience to Meet Individual Needs
Organizer This IFLA WLIC 2016 preconference is organized by IFLA Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities in cooperation with the American Printing House for the Blind,...
Event - 22 March 2016
Tags: Satellite Meeting, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Ulverscroft/IFLA LPD Sponsorships
PRESS RELEASE 27 January 2016 The Ulverscroft Foundation and the IFLA Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities Section are pleased to announce that the Ulverscroft...
News - 28 January 2016
Tags: Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Call for Papers for the LPD Satellite Conference WLIC 2016 Louisville Kentucky, USA
Join the committee on IFLA Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities (LPD) in cooperation with the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) for the 2016 LPD Satellite...
News - 20 January 2016
Tags: Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- WLIC 2015: The inclusive library: How to Render Inclusive Library Services to Blind and Visually Impaired People
IFLA World Library and Information Congress 81st IFLA General Conference and Assembly 15-21 August 2015, Cape Town, South Africa LPD Session : The inclusive library: How to...
News - 10 August 2015
Tags: Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- 2015 Open Session: Cape Town
IFLA World Library and Information Congress 81st IFLA General Conference and Assembly 15-21 August 2015, Cape Town, South Africa LPD Session : The inclusive library: How to...
Informational Page - 22 April 2015
Tags: Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- 2014 open session: Lyon
World Library and Information Congress: 16-22 August 2014, Lyon, France. Theme: How special are we anyway? Bringing accessible reading to mainstream libraries and markets;...
Informational Page - 22 April 2015
Tags: Conferences, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- IFLA Manifest für Bibliotheken für Menschen mit Lesebehinderungen
Zur Verbesserung und Förderung barrierefreier Bibliotheks- und Informationsdienstleistungen für Menschen mit einer Sehbehinderung oder anderen Leseeinschränkungen. Der...
Publication - 20 February 2015
Tags: Manifestos, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- EIFL releases new guide—provides an introduction to the Marrakesh Treaty for persons with print disabilities
EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) has just released a new guide that provides an introduction to the Marrakesh Treaty for persons with print disabilities (2013), its key provisions and...
News - 16 January 2015
Tags: Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Symposium on Barrier Free Access to Digital Information
The symposium will also be an excellent opportunity for meeting with colleagues who are members of the IFLA section for Libraries serving Persons with Print Disabilities (LPD), and getting to know...
Event - 9 January 2015
Tags: Conference, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Abstracts of the LPD satellite in Paris
Abstracts of the LPD satellite in Paris are available at: http://inova.snv.jussieu.fr/ifla-lpd/colloques/colloques/83_actes_en.html
News - 2 December 2014
Tags: Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- IFLA WLIC 2014 Lyon: Presentations from the LPD session
World Library and Information Congress: 80th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, Lyon, France Theme: "Libraries, Citizens, Societies: Confluence for Knowledge"...
Informational Page - 14 October 2014
Tags: Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Guidelines for Library Services to Persons with Dyslexia
The guidelines are a revision and expansion of the previous guidelines published by IFLA in 2001. We expect them to be a valuable tool for library staff who are responsible for serving...
News - 6 October 2014
Tags: Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- LPD Presentations
This page includes presentations for and about the LPD Section: LPD Presentation [DOC] This document outlines the information that is to be provided in a powerpoint...
Publication - 24 May 2014
Tags: Resource Guides, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Awards to the Estonian Library for the Blind for creating a webbased system for downloading and streaming of audio materials
On October 16 2012 the award “Deed of the Year 2012” was given by the Estonian Federation of the Blind. On February 28 2013 the Estonian Librarians Association’s award “...
News - 12 March 2013
Tags: Awards, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Key Performance Indicator Handbook for Libraries Serving Print Disabled People
Compiled by Jon Hardisty, Royal National Institute of Blind People, National Library Service, England Sebastian Mundt, Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart, Germany With thanks to...
Publication - 14 February 2013
Tags: Publications, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- New publication: Key Performance Indicator Handbook for Libraries Serving Print Disabled People
See the new Key Performance Indicator Handbook for Libraries Serving Print Disabled People. Compiled by Jon Hardisty, Royal National Institute of Blind People, National Library...
News - 13 February 2013
Tags: Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- The Ulverscroft Foundation and the IFLA Libraries Serving Persons with Disabilities Section Best Practice Awards 2013
The Ulverscroft Foundation and the IFLA Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities Section are pleased to announce that the Foundation has agreed to provide renewed sponsorship of 10,000 GP...
News - 21 January 2013
Tags: Announcement, Awards, Ulverscroft, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Manifesto for libraries serving persons with a print disability
Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities have published the final draft of a Manifesto for libraries and services for people with print disabilities.
News - 11 August 2012
Tags: Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- IFLA Manifesto for libraries serving persons with a print disability
To improve and promote accessible library and information services to persons with a visual impairment or any other print disability Lack of access to information is the biggest...
Publication - 11 August 2012
Tags: Manifestos, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- EU MS support for WIPO "books for blind people" treaty spring 2012
EBU has been asking EU governments for their position on a binding WIPO treaty. EBU: As a result of our petition to Parliament and Commissioner Barnier's appearance in front of Parliament, the...
News - 10 August 2012
Tags: Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- 2012 Dr. Dayton M. Forman Memorial Award
Call for Nominations The nomination deadline is August 17, 2012. This award recognizes outstanding leadership in the advancement of library and information services for Canadians with...
News - 10 August 2012
Tags: Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Satelite meeting 2012: Let’s Read: Reading and Print Disabilities in Young People
All documents in PDF-format. August 8th, 2012 Keynote: Pamela Deponio. Dyslexia and Co-occurring Specific Learning Difficulties Keynote: Kadi Lukanenok. ...
Informational Page - 10 August 2012
Tags: Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- LPD Satellite meeting in 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...
Event - 19 February 2012
Tags: Estonia, Satellite Meeting, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Ulverscroft/IFLA Best Practice Awards - 2011
The Ulverscroft Foundation and the IFLA Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities Section are pleased to announce the outcome of the bids for funding from the 2011 programme. The...
News - 23 December 2011
Tags: Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Call for papers: satellite meeting in Tallinn, Estonia
Theme: Let's Read! Reading and Print Disabilities in Young People Date 8-9 August 2012 Location Nordic Hotel Forum, Tallinn, Estonia see: complete information
News - 21 December 2011
Tags: Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- The Ulverscroft Foundation and the IFLA Libraries Serving Persons with Disabilities Section Best Practice Awards 2011
The Ulverscroft Foundation and the IFLA Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities Section are pleased to announce that the Foundation has agreed to provide renewed sponsorship of 10,000 GP...
News - 6 July 2011
Tags: Announcement, Awards, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Joint Announcement by Vision Australia and Ulverscroft Group, July 2011
Vision Australia is delighted to announce that it can now supply its members with Daisy versions of unabridged audio books published by Ulverscroft Group in UK. Ulverscroft is one of the...
News - 6 July 2011
Tags: Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Award for Estonian language interfaces for technical devices for blind people
In Estonia, Mother Tongue Day has been celebrated on March 14 since 1999. One of its aims is to highlight and award outstanding actions in the field of the Estonian language. At this year’s...
News - 1 June 2011
Tags: Announcement, Awards, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- How to organise Conferences, Satellite Meetings and Training Seminars
These Guidelines are meant to be continuously updated, so that experiences from each satellite Meeting and Training seminar are added. Download: MS Word PDF Last Update: March 2011,...
Publication - 25 March 2011
Tags: Guidelines, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- 2008 Québec City, Canada
Theme: Achieve more through design for all: how to make your website, buildings, presentations and print materials more accessible to print disabled people Papers: Web...
Informational Page - 5 January 2011
Tags: Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- 2010 Gothenburg, Sweden
Session 114 — Library Services to People with Special Needs with Libraries Serving People with Print Disabilities 13 August 2010 13:45 - 15:45 Theme: The right to read"...
Informational Page - 5 January 2011
Tags: Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- 2009 Milan, Italy
Theme: Using technology to give the past a future: the journey from Braille to XML "Feelix" the start of a journey to literacy: a unique Braille library makes picture...
Informational Page - 5 January 2011
Tags: Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Jodi Awards: spreading their wings in 2010
The Jodi Awards are for museums, galleries, libraries, archives and heritage venues which use digital technology to widen access to information, collections, learning and creativity for disabled...
News - 28 May 2010
Tags: Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Mailing Lists
Mailing Lists Join us on Facebook: IFLA LPD Group IFLA-LPD This is LPD's open mailing list.The IFLA-LPD is a forum for discussing matters of interest relating to...
Informational Page - 28 April 2010
Tags: Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Projects
Accessible Books Consortium IFLA is a founding partner of the Accessible Books Consortium (ABC). ABC aims to increase the number of books worldwide in...
Informational Page - 16 April 2010
Tags: Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Blackstone Audio gets DAISY Fever!
Blackstone Audio, one of the largest producers of unabridged audio titles in the US, is proud to announce the introduction of DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System) books to their library...
News - 1 April 2010
Tags: Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Jodi Award for Digital Access Online
The Jodi Awards for accessible cultural websites and digital media are annually granted by the Jodi Mattes Trust in Great Britain. The Jodi Mattes Trust was established to promote equal access to,...
News - 14 December 2009
Tags: Access to information, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- The Ulverscroft Foundation Best Practise Awards
The Ulverscroft Foundation and the IFLA Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities Section are pleased to announce that the Foundation has agreed to provide renewed sponsorship of 20,000 GP...
News - 8 September 2009
Tags: Announcement, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- The Ulverscroft Best Practice Awards
The Ulverscroft Foundation and the IFLA Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities Section are pleased to announce that the Foundation has agreed to provide renewed sponsorship of 20,000 GP...
News - 1 September 2009
Tags: Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities Section Newsletter
2017 No. 1. LPD Newsletter 2017-1 English PDF LPD Newsletter 2017-1 English Word LPD Newsletter 2017-Spanish.PDF LPD Newsletter 2017-Spanish.Word...
Publication - 24 June 2009
Tags: Newsletters, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities Section Action Plan
2018-2019 2017-2018 2015-2016 2014-2015 2012-2013 2010-2012 2008-2009 2006-2007 2004-2005 2003-2005
Publication - 24 June 2009
Tags: Action plans, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities Section Annual Report
2006-2007 2005 2003-2004 2001
Publication - 24 June 2009
Tags: Annual reports, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Guidelines created by the World Blind Union (WBU) on how to make the use of PowerPoint and other visual presentations accessible
Complete WBU version Summary by Minna von Zansen and Jenny Craven (IFLA LBS)
Publication - 24 June 2009
Tags: Guidelines, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- International report on library and information services for visually impaired people
Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, the British Library and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions have today published an international report on the governance...
Publication - 24 June 2009
Tags: Reports, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Designing and Building Integrated Digital Library Systems - Guidelines
The Hague, IFLA Headquarters, 2005. - 67p. 30 cm. ISBN-13 978 - 90-77897-05-4 Libraries have always been a community’s ‘portal’ to information, knowledge and leisure....
Publication - 24 June 2009
Tags: Guidelines, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Libraries for the Blind in the Information Age - Guidelines for development
Libraries for the Blind in the Information Age: Guidelines for Development Edited by Rosemary Kavanagh and Beatrice Christensen Sköld 2005 ISBN-13 978 - 90-77897-01-1 Visually...
Publication - 24 June 2009
Tags: Guidelines, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- International Directory of Libraries for the Blind
The fourth edition of the International Directory of Libraries for the Blind is printed from a database which was maintained by the Japanese Society for the Rehabilitation of Persons with...
Publication - 24 June 2009
Tags: Publications, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Guidelines for Library Service to Braille Users
Background In November 1994 the Intergovernmental Council of the UNESCO General Information Program approved the new revised text of the UNESCO Manifesto for Public Libraries. The...
Publication - 24 June 2009
Tags: Guidelines, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Conferences and Seminars
2019 The Marrakesh Treaty in Action: Implementing the treaty and more ideas for accessible digital reading, Helsinki, Finland, 12 March 2019 2018...
Informational Page - 24 June 2009
Tags: Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- About the Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities Section
Supported by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, where it is stated that print disabled people have the right to equal access to books, knowledge and...
Informational Page - 31 March 2009
Tags: Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities Section
The mission of the IFLA LPD is to advocate for library services that are equitable and accessible for persons with a print disability. Supported by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of...
IFLA Group or Activity - 31 March 2009
Tags: Sections, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Libraries serving persons with print disabilities section (LPD) name change
The name Libraries for the Blind Section may convey the message that the section is meant only for libraries for the blind that specialize in rendering services to blind persons exclusively. There...
News - 31 March 2009
Tags: Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities