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Library Services to People with Special Needs Section

Established in 1931
Previously called: "Libraries Serving Disadvantaged Persons Section"

IFLA Section for Libraries Serving Disadvantaged Persons (LSDP) celebrates its 75th birthday

Scope

The Library Services to People with Special Needs Section is concerned with library and information services to all those groups within the community who for whatever reason are unable to make use of conventional library services. These groups include people in hospitals and prisons, the elderly in nursing homes and care facilities, the house-bound, the deaf and the physically and developmentally disabled.

This Section provides an international forum for the discussion of ideas, sharing of experiences and development of projects designed to promote and improve the effectiveness of library and information services to such groups, and the promotion of national and international cooperation at all levels.

Strategic Plan

2006-2007

Publications

List of Publications produced by the Section
(Including IFLA Professional Reports)

Newsletter

2008

  • December (Issue 67)  — PDF | Word
  • June (Issue 66)  — PDF | Word

2007

  • December (Issue 65)  — PDF | Word
  • June (Issue 64)  — PDF

2006

  • December (Issue 63)  — PDF
  • June (Issue 62)  — PDF

2005

  • December (Issue 61)  — PDF
  • June (Issue 60)  — PDF

2004

  • December (Issue 59)  — PDF
  • June (Issue 58)  — PDF
Back Issues (from issue 42, 1996)

Annual Report

Conferences

During the WSIS conference in Tunis Nov. 16. 2005, Ms Misako Nomura made presentation of the LSDP and the DAISY audio book: "ICT and persons with disabilities in the library and information services"

Minutes of Meetings

Useful Addresses

Chair and Treasurer :
Moseid, Tone Eli
Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authority
(Senior Adviser) Box 8145 DEP
N-0033 OSLO
Norway
Tel. +47 23117544 (work)
Tel. +47 91158715 (mobile)
E-mail: tone.moseid@abm-utvikling.no
1st: 2005-2009
Secretary 2005-07
Chair: 2007-2009
Secretary :
Mortensen, Helle
Arendrup
Lyngby-Taarbaek Kommunes Biblioteker
(Assistant Librarian)
Coordinator of the outreach services at the Lyngby-Taarbaek Public Libraries
Lyngby Hovedgade 28
DK - 2800 Kgs. Lyngby
Denmark
Tel. +45 45 97 37 00
Tel. +45 45 97 37 36
Tel. +45 45 97 37 02
Email: hmo@ltk.dk
1st: 2005-2009
Secretary 2007-2009
Information Coordinator/Editor of Newsletter:
Forrest, Margaret
Academic Liaison Librarian
School of History, Classics and Archaeology
University of Edinburgh
William Robertson Building 50 George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9YJ
e-mail: margaret.forrest@ed.ac.uk
1st: 2003-2007
2nd: 2007-2011
Info.off. 2004-