Library Service for print disabled people: a tool for literacy
IFLA Satellite Meeting, August 14-15 2007 Grahamstown, Cape, South Africa
IFLA Libraries for the Blind section in Collaboration with South African Library for the Blind (Blindlib)
Programme in brief below. Please click here for the Full Programme
Sunday 12
Arrivals
Monday 13
Arrivals
Registration
Visit to BlindLib
Get together party
Tuesday 14
08:30 - 09:30 Registration
9:30 Opening
Key note speaker
Welcome by François Hendrikz, Director South African Library for the Blind (Blindlib
Beatrice Christensen Sköld, Chair IFLA Libraries for the Blind Section
10.00 Session 1 Context issues
Convenor Helen Brazier
What is IFLA and the Libraries for the Blind Section
- Beatrice Christensen Sköld, IFLA/LBS
International research on funding and governance of libraries for the blind
- Helen Brazier, RNIB National Library Service
The Current Situation in Southern Africa
- Dr William Rowland, President of World Blind Union and Chairman of the Board of Blindlib
User perspectives
- Judge Zak Yacoob, South Africa
11.10-11.30 Refreshments
11.30 Session 2 Library materials now and in the future: Best practice examples and their suitability for different audiences
Convenor: Elsebeth Tank
Introduction of DAISY Consortium and present and future production methods.
- Elsebeth Tank, President of the DAISY Consortium
Braille Literacy programme in South Africa
- Pasha Alden, South African Library for the Blind
Braille in DAISY
- Markus Gylling, Technical Coordinator, DAISY Consortium Questions
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch and Exhibition stroll
14.00 Session 2 continues
Convenor: Carolyn Sung
DAISY for all and the Urakawa Project
- Hiroshi Kawamura, Project leader DAISY for All and the Urakawa Project Japan
Assistive Technology and DAISY Developments in Africa - towards making the world accessible to blind and partially sighted people
- Chris Friend, Chair of WBU Copyright and Right to Read Working Group
Integrating library service for the blind in public libraries
- Mr. Deena Moodley, Blindlib
15.00-15.30 Light refreshments and exhibition stroll
15.30 Session 3 The Basis for library services to the blind and print disabled
Convenor: Peter Osborne, RNIB
Copyright and interlending
- Denise Rosemary Nicholson, Copyright Services Librarian, University of Witwatersrand, South Afri
Cataloguing DAISY
- Marcus Westlind, Cataloguer, Swedish Library of Talking Books and Braille (TPB)
16.10-16.30 Discussion
18.30 Bush Dinner (shuttle bus to Olive Park)
Wednesday 15
08.30 Session 4 Digital on-line services
Convenor: Margaret McGrory, CNIB Library
A national digital distribution system
- Jesper Klein, Project leader, Swedish Library of Talking Books and Braille, TPB
The Danish Net library (focus on e-books)
- Bente Dahl Rathje, Librarian, Danish National Library for the Blind DBB
Keeping connected: how could future developments in Audio Library services increase reading uptake among print-disabled people?
- Melanie Brebner, Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind Library
Questions
10.00-10.30 Coffee and exhibition stroll
10.30 Session 3 Material for Children
Convenor: Päivi Voutilainen, Celia Library
Read with me! The importance of print in books for young touch readers, -
- Marion Ripley, Librarian, Clearvision, UK
Tactile books as an aid to Literacy
- Robin Nation, Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind Library
The effect of Storytelling applying of tactile books for the visually impaired
- Keun Hae Youk, Director of Korean Braille Library
Questions
12.00-13.30 Lunch and exhibition stroll
13.30 Session 4 Country reports and reports from Ulverscroft grantees
Convenor: Beatrice Christensen Sköld, IFLA Libraries for the Blind Section
Report from three African countries
Reports from Ulverscroft exchange programme
- Wendy Ling - Marketing and Fund-Raising
- Sindiswa Gule - InterLibrary Loans
What Blindlib can offer
-Francois Hendrikz, Director, Blindlib
Questions
15.30-16.00 Closing remarks
Tours
Gala Dinner
Thursday 16
Workshop sponsored by the FORCE Foundation
˘ Tactile Books. Making Tactile Books for Children with a Visual Impairment, under the supervision of Marion Ripley Clearvision and Annica Norberg, Swedish Library of talking Books and Braille (TPB)
Friday 17
Workshop continues
˘ Making Tactile Books for Children with a Visual Impairment
˘ Marion Ripley and Annica Norberg
