Crash Course in Library Services to People with Disabilities

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Synopsis

This book helps libraries identify and implement new ways to serve their physically or mentally disabled patients.Authors Ann Roberts and Dr. Richard Smith work at the state level with persons with disabilities. They find that very few librarians feel comfortable with providing services addressed to the needs of the disabled, yet those who do offer services and programs other libraries can adopt and adapt. Crash Course in Library Services to People with Disabilities will help librarians get up to speed in understanding disabled persons and what they can do to make library premises and holdings more accessible to them. It provides basic information on the different types of mental and physical disabilities a librarian might encounter, then offers a range of exemplary policies, services, and programs for people with disabilities—efforts that are in place and working across the country.

Book details

Series:
Crash Course
Author:
Ann Roberts, Richard J. Smith
ISBN:
9781610690560
Related ISBNs:
9781591587675
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages:
158
Reading age:
7-17
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2023-06-06
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2009
Copyright by:
N/A 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Education, Language Arts, Nonfiction