Disability and Access
Management Seminar

Manchester Metropolitan University
Monday 4 November 2002

The aim of this Disability and Access Seminar is to improve access to
information for disabled people, and to information on disabilities. The
seminar is aimed at middle managers: people who have strategic
responsibility, and operational oversight for the delivery of services to
the whole community of users.

During the course of the seminar participants

will be introduced to techniques for understanding what is really needed;
will increase their awareness of the full range of support that is possible;

will identify good practice;
will be challenged to ensure that the services they deliver are designed to
meet the needs of disabled people;
will learn from the experience of others;
will share ideas;
will impact on policy and advice from CILIP.

The day will begin with a look at the reality of being disabled; followed by
advice on where to begin; hear from people who are delivering effective
services; and hear from umbrella organisations which can help. Participants
will finish by considering all these aspects together, and will be reminded
of their discussions with a follow-up report.


Programme

9.30 - 10.00 Registration/Coffee

10.00 - 10.10 Introduction and Welcome - Bernard Naylor

10.10 - 11.40 Keynote - Reality of experience "Tell it how it is" - Val Rice

10.40 - 11.00 Coffee

11.00 - 12.30 Where do 'you' begin? Panel

Community profiling (why you should) - Mandy Hicken
Demographics and research (how you go about it) - Eric Davies
Paying for it (how do you find funding) - Elizabeth Binns

12.30 - 1.00 Experiences from the front-line
Lynda Martin - Cambridgeshire Library & Information Services
or
Stephen Walters - Gateshead Central Library

1.00 - 2.00 Lunch

2.00 - 3.00 What is the role of Umbrella Organisations? How can they help?
National Information Forum - Derek Kinrade
Share the Vision - David Owen
CILIP - Bernard Naylor

3.00 - 3.30 Tea

3.30 - 4.30 Summary - Where next? Chaired by Helen Brazier

4.30 Conference Close

Full details are available on the CILIP website
http://www.cilip.org.uk/training_events/cilip_courses/x0001.html
or from
Madeleine Tseyoungsun, CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE
Tel: 020 7255 0638    Textphone:  020 7255 0505    Fax: 020 7255 0501
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Lyndsay Rees-Jones
Workplace and Solo Advisor
CILIP
020 7255 0500
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CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals was
formed in April 2002 following the unification of the Institute of
Information Scientists and the Library Association. www.cilip.org.uk