Due to the popularity of this workshop we are now running two additional
dates!
The Enabling Library - eerving users with physical or sensory impairment
8 February * 19 March, London


Disabled people have as many and varied library needs as anyone else, but
because there are so many kinds of motor and sensory impairment, their
physical and other access needs must be met in many different ways.

In all types of library there are excellent examples of services which meet
the needs of a particular group of disabled readers but there are relatively
few libraries which adequately and appropriately satisfy everyone who has a
disability.

How will this event help you?

This practical workshop will consider issues such as physical access for
wheelchair users, making information accessible to visually impaired people,
and meeting the needs of people with hearing impairment. There will be
opportunities to share experience, to look critically at what is already
being done in participants' own library information services, as well as to
think about ways of improving those services.

By you end of the day you will be:

* Aware of the range of motor and sensory impairments
* Able to identify the different needs of people with different
disabilities
* Able to identify best practice in service provision
* Able to identify financial and other help for developing services

Who will benefit from attending?

The workshop is designed for anyone planning or providing services to
disabled users.


Programme

9.00 Registration and coffee

9.30 Introduction and objectives

9.45 Understanding disability
Types of disability - physical, motor, sensory, hearing and
visual.
Medical and social models. DDA definitions

11.00 Coffee

11.15 Group work (experience of disability, the social environment) The
effects of language, avoiding offence, policies and practice)

12.00 The accessible environment. Layout, colour, IT solutions

1.00 Lunch

2.30 Issues in service development (group work) alongside, special,
housebound, postal/telephone, IT links staff training, sensitivity,
language, avoiding stereotypes, equipment

3.15 Tea

3.30 Developing services - finding, help from local access groups

4.15 Improving current practice (group work)

4.45 Overview and summary

5.00 Close


Workshop Leader

Dr. Gill Burrington has worked in public and academic libraries, in higher
education and in industry and was LA President in 1994. She chairs THE ADAPT
(Access for Disabled People in Arts Premises Today) Trust and is on the
Council of the National Library for the Blind. She regularly runs the
management skills workshop for The Library Association's CPD programme.


Places are limited to: 15

Fees

LA Personal members £120 plus VAT (£21.00) £141.00
LA Institutional members £143 plus VAT (£25.03) £168.03
Non members £168 plus VAT (£29.40) £197.40
LA Students/unwaged members £25 plus VAT (£4.37) £29.37

To provisionally book your place please call Professional Development on
0171 636 7543 ext. 288/9, alternatively you can email us at
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