Access to Information and Library Services for the Users with Disability

Mohapatra, Niranjan . Access to Information and Library Services for the Users with Disability., 2018 In: Marching Beyond the Libraries: Managerial and Technological Competencies. Overseas Press India, pp. 515-528. [Book chapter]

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Access to information is one of the most important human rights that allow a person to develop themselves. Different types of users have been serviced by libraries; some of those users are disabled, which also require information and services from libraries. Libraries must not discriminate against individuals with disabilities and shall ensure that the persons with disabilities have equal access to library resources. The Library professionals should keep in mind that how to fulfill the needs of disability users to follow the fundamental laws of Library Science. The Library should provide facilities to the users with a disability to access the library’s resources and services. When a library wants to provide services for people with disability, then the library should know clearly about the characteristics of the people with disability. The users with disability have the same rights like others to use the library services. Although they are disability, they have different ability to study and work in the changing society. Changing the label of users with disability into users with different ability not only changes the terms, But the meaning of identifying the abilities of a user also varies, whose body condition is different from others.

Item type: Book chapter
Keywords: Disability, Census, India, WHO
Subjects: D. Libraries as physical collections. > DH. Special libraries.
Depositing user: Niranjan Mohapatra
Date deposited: 08 Dec 2020 05:40
Last modified: 08 Dec 2020 05:40
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/40755

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