Role of Public Library in Making its Services and Resources Accessible to Differently Abled Persons

Talawar, Anil B., Patil, Rohit R. and Naikar, Satishkumar Role of Public Library in Making its Services and Resources Accessible to Differently Abled Persons. Pearl: A Journal of Library and Information Science, 2025, vol. 19, n. 1, pp. 1-6. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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English abstract

This article examines the role of public libraries in providing information to differently abled individuals and the problems faced by them. The authors suggest that in order to make public libraries in India more accessible to people with disabilities, the state and federal governments should step up and provide additional funding and other resources and also public libraries must offer their patrons with disabilities the bare minimum of services.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: Differently abled persons, Public library, Information access, India, Physical access, Media formats
Subjects: D. Libraries as physical collections. > DC. Public libraries.
D. Libraries as physical collections. > DD. Academic libraries.
Depositing user: Satishkumar Naikar
Date deposited: 01 Jun 2025 00:40
Last modified: 01 Jun 2025 00:40
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/46812

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