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    Libraries for the Blind SectionAnnual Report 2006-2007Prepared by: Beatrice Christensen Sköld, Chair Scope statement of LBSThe mission of the Libraries for the Blind Section is to encourage the establishment and development of fully accessible library services to print disabled people. MembershipMembership remains stable at 74. OfficersDue to the resignation of the Section’s chair, Johan Roos, South African Library for the Blind, Beatrice Christensen Sköld was elected chair at the Standing Committee Meeting I in Seoul för one year. Secretary of the section has been Helen Brazier, RNIB National Library Service. As there was no candidate to the position of chair in Durban, Helen Brazier by the permission of IFLA Professional Committee was elected Acting Chair until December 31 2007 at the last Standing Committee meeting. Bente Dahl Rathje; The Danish National Library for the Blind, was elected secretary/treasurer at the SC meeting I, August 18 2007, in Durban. UK. Telephone and postal addresses of the officers appointed from 1 September 2007: Helen Brazier (Special advisor Acting Chair) Information OfficersLina Kouzi has been Information officer until 31 August. New Information officers from 1 September 2007 are Minna von Zansen, Celia Library for the Visually impaired, Finland, and Jenny Craven, CERLIM, University of Manchester,UK. Addresses: Minna von Zansen (Joint Information Co-ordinator) MeetingsThe Standing Committee held its midyear meeting in Hamburg, Germany. 27-28 February 2007, with 13 SC members present and 8 observers of which 6 were incoming members, one incoming corresponding member and one special advisor. One of the major items discussed at this meeting was nomination of new chair for the next two years. Other items were upcoming conferences and workshops. At the SCI, 18 August in Durban altogether 14 members took part of which four were outgoing plus four observers. To discuss the question with electing a new chair an extra SC was held at the Balmoral hotel, August 20, at which 12 SC members were present (3 were outgoing). At SC II 24 August, 11 SC members and two observers were present. The Chair took part in the Meeting of the Coordinating Board Division II Midyear meeting in Zagreb March 1-2 2007. present at the CB meetings in Durban were at Meeting 1: Beatrice Christensen Sköld, Chair and Helen Brazier, Secretary and at CB II:Helen Brazier, Acting chair and Bente Dahl Rathje. ProjectsDuring the period IFLA LBS has run a number of projects: a) International research on funding and governance of libraries for the blind (strategic plan ref. 2). Completed. b) Joint project on guidelines on services for babies and toddlers with other members of Division III Completed c) Workshop on cataloguing standards for digital material Workshop completed June 14-15 2007. Report in progress. d) Start (strategic plan ref. 2.4) Final report submitted. e) Training courses for DAISY production and tactile picture books for blind children, in South Africa
The Training courses financed by means from IFLA ALP/SIDA will take place in November 2007. PublicationsThe Sections has published two newsletters during this period 200672 and 2007/1. The START report has been published on www.ifla.org. The report on International research on funding and governance of libraries for the blind has been published electronically as a DAISY multimedia disk and on the web. The Babies and toddlers guidelines for which the Section of Library service for children and young adults was responsible were launched at the World Library and Information Congress in Durban, August 2007. Conference programmesAt the World Library and Information Congress in Durban the section had a joint programme with IFLA Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section, Thursday 23 August. The theme was: Best practice in library services for print-disabled children. The following papers were presented:
Two of the Sessions’ papers were also translated into French (se www.ifla.org). Relationships with other BodiesThe Section cooperates on a regular basis with World Blind Union (WBU) and the International DAISY Consortium. FORCE Foundation has supported the Section financially with 6000 Euros which made it possible to arrange the workshop on tactile picture books for blind children August 15-16. IFLA ALP has supported the Section with grants for African delegates at the preconference in Grahamstown 15 000 USD. Other eventsIn November 2006 Beatrice Christensen Sköld took part in the launching the Croatian translation of the Sections guidelines Libraries for the blind in the information Age, in Koprivnica, Croatia. The Section’s preconference and workshop on tactile material in Grahamstown., South Africa, had the following programme: Theme: 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) Sunday 12 Arrivals Monday 13 Arrivals Registration starts Visit to Blindlib Opening Function Dinner – African Drumbeat Tuesday 14 08.30 –09.30 Registration 09.30- 10.00 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 – 11.00 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 - Margaret McGrory, Executive Director CNIB Library, Canada # 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, Judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa 11.00- 11.20 Refreshments 11.20 -12.30 Session 2: Library materials now and in the future: Best practice examples and their suitability for different audiences Convenor: Hiroshi Kawamura # Introduction of DAISY Consortium and present and future production methods. - Hiroshi Kawamura, Vice President of the DAISY Consortium # Braille Literacy programme in South Africa - Pasha Alden, South African Library for the Blind # Parallel DAISY Production - Jesper Klein, Project Coordinator, Swedish Library of Talking Books and Braille (TPB) 12.30 – 14.00 Lunch and Exhibition stroll 14.00-15.00 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 – Digital minilibs - Melton Kivitts, Technical Manager, Blindlib 15.00-15.30 Light refreshments and exhibition stroll 15.30 -16.10 Session 3: The Bases 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 Africa # 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 House) Wednesday 15 08.30- 10.00 Session 4: Digital on-line services Convenor: Margaret McGrory, CNIB Library # A national digital distribution system - Jesper Klein, Project coordinator, 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 5: Material for Children Convenor: Päivi Voutilainen # Books for Children who struggle with Braille - 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 - Intae Seon, Korean Braille Library Questions 12.00-13.30 Lunch and exhibition stroll 13.30 Session 6: Country reports and reports from Ulverscroft Grantees Convenor: Beatrice Christensen Sköld # What Blindlib can offer - Francois Hendrikz, Director, Blindlib # Report from three African countries: Sierra Leone, Kenya and Zambia # Report from Ulverscroft exchange programme, Wendy Ling 15.00 Refreshments 15.30-16.00 Closing remarks Tours Gala Dinner Thursday 16 Workshops 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) # Daisy: Introduction to relevant organisational and technical themes for the implementation of Daisy. Friday 17 Workshops continue: # Making Tactile Books for Children with a Visual Impairment Marion Ripley and Annica Norberg # Daisy: Introduction to relevant organisational and technical themes for the implementation of Daisy. The papers from the prec0nference are published on www.blindlib.org.za which is linked to www.ifla.org Author:Author of this report is Beatrice Christensen Sköld, Swedish Library of Talking Books and Braille (TPB) Date: September 25, 2007
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