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Subject: Disability Awareness Seminar
Please find information below on the Career Development Group
East of England Division
Disability Awareness Seminar
Thurs 25th Feb 2009
The Morison Room, Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge,
CB3 9DR
10.00
Registration and tea/coffee
10:15
Welcome and Introduction
Colin Clarkson, Head of the Reference Department & Disability Liaison
Officer, Cambridge University Library
10:20
"Access technology and document accessibility"
Barry Coates, Access Technology Trainer, RNIB
11:20
"Making your library accessible to disabled people"
Kirsty Wayland, Disability Development Consultant, Disability Resource
Centre, University of Cambridge
12:20
Lunch (provided) and AGM
13:15
"'Nothing about us, without us' approaches to delivering services for
disabled people in Hertfordshire"
Penny Whitehead, Equalities Development Librarian Hertfordshire Libraries
14.15
"Approaches to disability training in Papworth library"
Lynda Martin, Partnership Manager for Cambridgeshire Libraries
15:15
Close
Speaker and Session Details
Barry Coates is an Access Technology Trainer working for an internal IT
support team in RNIB. His presentation will cover the different forms of
Access Technology used specifically by blind and partially sighted computer
users.
Kirsty Wayland is Disability Development Consultant at the Disability
Resource Centre at the University of Cambridge where her role includes
delivering staff development on all elements of disability and access for
disabled people. The session 'Making your library accessible to disabled
people' will focus on practical steps you can take to ensure that all library
users feel welcome and are included.
Penny Whitehead, Equalities Development Librarian Hertfordshire Libraries,
will provide an overview of the Hertfordshire approach to providing services
for disabled people and focus particularly on recent work to support service
delivery for people with learning difficulties. Part of the session will
include an interactive exercise on communication skills.
Lynda Martin will talk about the history of Papworth Library and the library
training programme for people with disabilities from the Papworth Trust
Progression Programme and the challenges for the future.
Annual General Meeting
The Career Development Group, East of England, would like to invite members
to the CDG-EOE AGM at The Morison Room, Cambridge University Library, West
Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DR.
This event will take place in conjunction with the Disability Awareness
Seminar.
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Details are as follows:
Date: Thursday 28 February, 2010
Time: 12.20-1.20
Venue: The Morison Room, Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge,
CB3 9DR
Cost: Free
For further information or to book a place, please contact Suzanne Griffiths
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Suzanne Griffiths, MLIS, CGA
Business Information Specialist,
Management Information Resource Centre (MIRC), School of Management, Building
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