Sharing a Vision to Improve Library Services for Visually Impaired People in the United Kingdom

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Title: Sharing a Vision to Improve Library Services for Visually Impaired People in the United Kingdom
Author(s): Owen, David
Issue Date: 2007
Keyword(s): Library services for the visually impaired
Abstract: The United Kingdom has an unplanned, mixed library economy of services for visually impaired people compared with other developed countries. This article sets out the historical context within which this has come about; attempts made to improve these services since the creation of Share the Vision in 1989 via enhanced partnership working within and between the voluntary and public sectors; and practical measures to achieve this and campaigning work to include consideration of the needs of visually impaired people within mainstream services and to persuade the UK government to adopt a more proactive role. It sets out an ambitious vision statement for library services for visually impaired people in the UK that has still to be achieved.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
ISSN: 0024-2594
Type of Resource: text
Language: en
Permalink: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/3761
Copyright and License Information: Copyright 2007 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Library Trends 55 (4) Spring 2007: Library and Information Services for Visually Impaired People. Edited by Helen Brazier and David Owen.