Practical Guides for Librarians

A Practical Guide for Librarians

By: Jane Vincent

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Paperback | 2 April 2024 | Edition Number 2

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Libraries have an ethical, and usually a legal, obligation to make their services accessible to disabled patrons and employees. Making the Library Accessible for All is a single-source guide that librarians can refer to when planning, remediating, or evaluating accessibility. With a unique holistic approach, it emphasizes the perception of people with disabilities as partners in meeting a common goal rather than as a population to be "served." Topics addressed and updated in this second edition include:

Multiple interviews with librarians and other experts in the field about proven accessibility strategies for libraries, personal experiences, and cutting-edge innovations;
Innovations in providing assistive digital technology, many of which are free or built into common programs;
An overview of changes coming to accessibility guidelines for digital content;
Up-to-date information on legislation that may affect some or all libraries;
An evaluation of how the COVID pandemic has changed both library services and patron needs

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Starting from the point of view that disabled people are the experts, Jane Vincent has written a readable and comprehensive guide to library accessibility for library directors, department heads, and frontline staff. Her thorough understanding of the subject allows her to extend traditional library standards to encompass accessibility. Clear examples of disabled people navigating library services, followed by in-depth interviews with library staff, many of them disabled, bring home the message that accessible libraries are necessary and doable. This will be one of my go-to resources.

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