On the second full day the focus lays on the ‘Public Libraries’: special and public libraries join together to create new ways of reading, to reach more people and to sustain lifelong learning ; public libraries will showcase the best practices for supporting print disabled people.

The focus on cooperation with public libraries will be introduced by drawing attention to the structural changes in the Netherlands and in Flanders (Belgium). This approach is an example of the actual progress all over the world.

We also have about twenty contributions from different countries of different continents.

The sessions are clustered around national level, regional level and local approach.

Participants may have to choose between parallel sessions.

Two workshops will be interactive: one on reading groups and the other on the all important subject of ‘The Global Library’. 

9.00  Session ‘cooperation with public libraries’   

Convenor: Marian Koren (Netherlands Public Library Association)

 

 

 

 

Geert Ruebens
Situation in Flanders (Belgium) by Geert Ruebens (Luisterpunt, Flemish Library for Audio books and Braille)

Presentation: Integrating Library Services with Daisy Books in Public Libraries (pdf)

 

 

Thea van Lankvelt

Situation in The Netherlands by Thea van Lankvelt (Netherlands Public Library Association)

Paper: The inclusion of the library service to visually-impaired people in the Dutch public library system (pdf)
Presentation: The Dutch method (pdf) 

 

10.00 Best practices on a national level

Pat Beech
The Reading Sight: bridging the reading gap for UK blind and partially sighted readers, by Pat Beech (RNIB, England)

Presentation: Helping libraries support people with sight loss (pdf). 

Bitte Kronkvist
Recent user and target group surveys in Sweden, by Bitte Kronkvist (TPB, Sweden)

Presentation: Do we reach our target groups? (pdf)

 

 

11.00 Best practices on a national level

Julie Rae
Media partnerships leads to better services, Julie Rae (VAILS, Australia)
Presentation: Media Partnerships and Accessible Newspapers (pdf)

 

 

 

Lone Soegaard

A National Reading Room for persons with print disabilities by Lone Soegaard (Nota, Danish National Library for persons with print disabilities, Denmark)

Presentation: National digital reading place (pdf)

 

11.30 Best practices from local public libraries
Two parallel sessions of each 3 presentations

Track 1
Convenor: Thea van Lankvelt (the Netherlands)

 

 

 

 

Bitte Kronkvist

Newspapers and ‘books-on-wheels’ digitally, Bitte Kronkvist, (TPB, Sweden)
Presentation: Newspapers and ”Book-on-wheels” digitally (pdf)

 

 

Dijana Sabolovic-Krajina


The key role of cooperation to keep library service for the blind and visually impaired sustainable, by Dijana Sabolovic-Krajina (Public Library ‘Fran Galovic’ in Koprivnica, Croatia)
Presentation: The key role of cooperation to keep library service for the blind and visually impaired sustainable (pdf)

 

 

   Irene Muthoni Kibandi


Braille corners in local public libraries, by Irene Muthoni Kibandi (National Library, Kenya)
Presentation:

Visually impaired persons (VIP) library service provision in Kenya National Library Service (KNLS), Nairobi, Kenya, paper (pdf)
Visually impaired persons (VIP) library service provision in Kenya National Library Service (KNLS), Nairobi, Kenya, powerpoint (pdf) 

Track 2

Convenor: Saskia Boets (Flanders, Belgium)
   

 

 

 

 

Jette Bendix Pedersen

Get going! How to bring library services to dyslectic into focus at your library, by Jette Bendix Pedersen and Helle Arendrup Mortensen (Denmark)
Download the presentation (pdf)

 

 

Helle Arendrup Mortensen
 

Helle Arendrup Mortensen

  Philippe Claudet

 

 
The Typlo & Tactus Project: using tactile books, by Philippe Claudet (Editions Les Doigts qui rêvent, France)

Presentation: Tactile illustrated Books publisher for all children but accessible for v. imp children (pdf)

 

 

Atsushi Hattori
A local public library in Hirakata near Osaka, by Atsushi Hattori (Japan)

The services for the blind and print disabled people in Hirakata City Library (Osaka), paper (pdf)

Presentation (pdf)

 

14.00 Interactive workshops
Two parallel sessions of workshops (for each topic a short presentation followed by an interactive and open discussion)

Workshop 1 on reading groups

driver of the discussion: Helen Brazier (England)

 

 

 

 

Sheelagh Gallagher

East Midlands Reading Group Pilot Project, by Sheelagh Gallagher (England)

 

 

Nick Coe
Hampshire’s reading groups for visually impaired people, by Nick Coe (Hampshire County Library Service, England)

Presentation: The Reading Sight – Connecting readers with sight loss to libraries. (pdf)

Interview about special reading clubs (MP3, 3.min.)

 

Workshop  2 on the Global Library

driver of the discussion: Francois Hendrikz (South Africa)
Global library for the blind, by Francois Hendrikz (South African Library for the Blind)

Presentation: Global library for the blind (pdf)

15.30  Best practices on a regional level
Two parallel sessions of each 3 presentations

 

 

Track 1
Convenor: Saskia Boets (Flanders, Belgium)

 

 

 

 

Kris De Winter


Casestudy: cooperation between Luisterpunt and public libraries in the province of Antwerp concerning the distribution of Daisy, by Kris De Winter (Provincial Government Antwerp, Flanders Belgium)

Presentation: Daisy-books: cooperation Luisterpunt* – public libraries (pdf)

Peter Spuij
Innovation in regional support for public libraries serving the visually impaired, by Peter Spuij (ProBiblio and Biblioservice, The Netherlands)

Presentation: Provincial Service Organisation for public libraries (pdf)

 

 

Jane Hall
Partnerships for print disabled people: proposal from North East Accessible Library and Information Services (NEALIS), by Jane Hall (Sunderland City Council, England)

Presentation: The NEALIS Story (pdf), by Mark Freeman.

 

 

Track 2
Convenor: Thea van Lankvelt (The Netherlands)

 

 

 

 

Julia Rae

Partnerships with public libraries and Vision Australia Information Library Service (VAILS) by Julia Rae (Vision, Australia)

Presentation: Partnerships and Social Inclusion: Accessible Book Clubs and Reading Groups in Public Libraries (pdf)

 

Yvonne Sinkeldam


Services for visually impaired people in public Libraries in the Province of Gelderland, by Yvonne Sinkeldam (Biblioservice Gelderland, The Netherlands)
Presentation: Service Centre for Print Disabled Persons Biblioservice Gelderland (pdf)

 

 

Francois Hendrikz

Taking the library to the people: The Mdantsane digital mini library project (Ria Graves) presented by Francois Hendrikz (South African Library for the Blind)

 Presentation: The Mdantsane digitial mini library project (pdf)

 

 

16.30  Closing session remarks - Summary (pdf) of the Conference
Cooperation with public libraries by Marian Koren
The Ulverscroft Awards 2008, by Helen Brazier
New name and logo of the LPD-section, by Bente Dahl Rathje

18.30 - 22.00 Dinner
Choice between a boat trip and dinner, or a gastronomic walk through the city.