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Title Disability issues and libraries : a Scottish perspective / editor Nicholas Joint
Published Bradford, England : Emerald Group Pub., ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (55 pages)
Series Library review, 0024-2535 ; v. 54, no. 8
Library review ; v. 54, no. 8
Contents EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; Disability issues and libraries: a Scottish perspective; Person first, disability second: disability awareness training in libraries; Auditing SCURL Special Needs Group members; Customers with disabilities: the academic library response; Glasgow City Council: library, information and learning services for disabled people in Glasgow; The web, accessibility, and inclusion: networked democracy in the United Kingdom; Studying with special needs: some personal narratives; Book reviews
Summary Sketches the legislative underpinning to advances in the area of library disability service provision, and points out the role of the customer service values inherent in the library profession which should not be underestimated as a contributing factor to this story of improvement. In particular, emphasises the need to focus on the human rather than the technological side of this subject
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Subject Libraries and people with disabilities.
Library science.
Library Science
library science.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Library & Information Science -- Archives & Special Libraries.
Libraries and people with disabilities
Library science
Form Electronic book
Author Joint, Nicholas
ISBN 1845447840
9781845447847