Information Services Group

Disability Information Event

Heard of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) but still unsure what
it means for your library or information service? The ISG are running a
Disability Information Event to look at the issues and help make things
clearer.

Speakers are Lionel Long, the Manager of UPDATE, Scotland's National
Disability Information Service and Steve Harvey, Project Officer with
SAIF (Scottish Accessible Information Forum).

Lionel will give an overview of disability information, as well as
inform us about the work of UPDATE. UPDATE is a second tier information
service for voluntary and statutory organisations that give information
to people with disabilities. They can offer a range of services from an
on-line database to specialist holiday information and welfare rights
advice. Lionel helped to set up UPDATE and was previously the Training
and Development Worker for DIAL UK, a similar organisation covering
England and Wales.

Steve Harvey works for SAIF based in Glasgow and will be helping us to
look at how to implement the SAIF standards for disability information
and advice provision in Scotland. This will be a practical session
looking at how we can all make our library and information services more
accessible to people with disabilities.

We have built time into the day for ISG members to meet and network - an
important part of any day out and of course there is always the other
day's activities to discuss! (Election Day).

Details are as follows: -

Venue: UPDATE, 27 Beaverhall Road, Edinburgh, EH7 4JE, telephone 0131
558 5200

Date: Thursday 7 June 2001

Times & Programme:

10.30am Registration and coffee/tea

11.00am Talk from Lionel Long, Manager of UPDATE

12.30/1.00pm Lunch (price included)

 2.00pm Session from Steve Harvey, Project Worker SAIF

3.30pm Finish

Cost £20

Maximum 20 places, so book now by contacting Frances Foster, Secretary
of ISG by e-mail on [log in to unmask], or by phone on
01382 435803. Booking with payment to be made by Fri. 1 June 2001.

Hope to see you there!

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Sarah Stephens
Librarian
Scottish Crop Research Institute
Invergowrie
Dundee DD2 5DA
Scotland

Tel: 01382 562731 ext 2013
Fax: 01382 562426
Web: http://www.scri.sari.ac.uk

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