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ALTA Trustees Resource Centre

Library Service to Special Populations

PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

Canadian Guidelines on Library and Information Services for People with Disabilities [CLA Position Statement]
http://cla.ca/about/disabils.htm

"Extensive consultation and cooperation from across the country resulted in the following library guidelines on serving people with disabilities. These guidelines are intended to be used by librarians as the basis for creating libraries which are accessible to all Canadians." [source: website]
SERVICES TO PRINT-DISABLED

Council on Access to Information to Print-Disabled Canadians
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/accessinfo/

Does your library meet its responsibilities in serving print-disabled Canadians? Three million Canadians are print-disabled -- prevented from reading standard print due to a visual, perceptual or physical disability. "The Council's role is to provide advice, identify funding requirements, monitor progress and make recommendations regarding the implementation of Fulfilling the Promise: The Report of the Task Force on Access to Information for Print-Disabled Canadians. [source: website]

Print Impairment Resources
http://www.ucalgary.ca/abilityplace/LINKS/print-impair.html

Links to a number of tools, resources and assistive technologies to assist libraries in providing services to those who are print-impaired from Calgary’s Ability Place -- an Internet gateway to disability related information sources. It was begun in Alberta by a group of disability information providers, in the spirit of sharing information and supporting one another.

CNIB Library for the Blind
http://www.cnib.ca/library/

"offers free library and information services to approximately 3,000,000 Canadians who are blind, visually impaired, and print-disabled"

Web Site Design for Persons with Disabilities
http://www.ucalgary.ca/abilityplace/LINKS/websites.html

Has your library's website been checked to see if it is usable by people with disabilities? Calgary’s Ability Placeprovides links to a few very useful resources, including BOBBY, a web-based tool that analyzes web pages for their accessibility to people with disabilities.

How People with Disabilities Use the Web: W3C Working Draft, 4 January 2001
http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/PWD-Use-Web/Overview.html

"This document provides an introduction to use of the Web by people with disabilities. It illustrates some of their requirements when using Web sites and Web-based applications, and provides supporting information for the guidelines and technical work of the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative(WAI)." [source: website]
ADAPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES

Adaptive Technology Resource Center
http://www.utoronto.ca/atrc/

"The Adaptive Technology Resource Centre advances information technology that is accessible to all; through research, development, education, pro-active design consultation and direct service."  [source: website]
 

Esmerel’s Collection of  Disability Resources
http://www.esmerel.org/

On these pages, you will find lists of many disability related resources. There are literally hundreds of well-organized links (at last count over 2000). [source: website]

DO-IT Program: Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking and Technology
http://www.washington.edu/doit/

This University of Washington initiative promotes the use of electronic and information technology to maximize the independence, productivity and participation of people with disabilities
SENIORS

Canadian Guidelines on Library and Information Services for Older Adults
http://www.cla.ca/resources/olderadults.htm

This set of guidelines, proposed by the Canadian Library Association’s Interest Group on Services for Older People is intended to provide a checklist for libraries to use in planning services that are inclusive of older adults, and that will encourage a greater use of libraries by this growing population.
 
 
 

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