Content tagged Services to the visually impaired
Ordered by publication date from most to less recent.
(These results include any available translations of the original English documents.)
- Ensuring Equality: IFLA Submits Comments to New Zealand Marrakesh Treaty Implementation Consultation
Following a call for comments by the government of New Zealand Te Aotearoa on draft legislation designed to implement the Marrakesh Treaty, IFLA has made a submission. This highlights the need to...
News - 8 February 2019
Tags: Access to information, Library services to people with disabilities, Marrakesh Treaty, New Zealand, Services to the visually impaired, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Bringing the Marrakesh Treaty closer to practice: IFLA releases new monitoring report
IFLA has today published an update to its Marrakesh Monitoring Report. This sets out which countries have ratified or acceded to the Treaty, and which have taken the necessary steps at...
News - 24 January 2019
Tags: Advocacy, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Intellectual property, Interlibrary loans, International cooperation, Library services to people with disabilities, Services to the visually impaired
- Implementing the Marrakesh Treaty: Monitoring Report
The Marrakesh Treaty was signed in June 2013, and barely three years later entered into force. Yet ratification is only part of the story. IFLA's monitoring work shows where progress is...
Publication - 1 October 2018
Tags: Access to information, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Library services to people with disabilities, Marrakesh Treaty, Services to the visually impaired, LDP (Library Development Programme), Studies
- Getting Started with the Marrakesh Treaty - a Guide for Librarians
The Marrakesh Treaty entered into force in September 2016, faster than any other international copyright text in the last 40 years. It promises to remove some of the key...
Publication - 27 August 2018
Tags: Access to information, Copyright, Libraries serving persons with print disabilities, Library services to people with disabilities, Marrakesh Treaty, Services to the visually impaired, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Toolkits
- LSN Minutes Wroclaw 2017
Standing Committee meeting in Wroclaw, Poland Library Services to People with Special Needs Section SC1: 10:15-12:15 on Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at Room 50 SC2: 8:00-10:30 on Wed, Aug...
Informational Page - 20 April 2018
Tags: Accessibility, Library services to people with disabilities, Services to the visually impaired, Library Services to People with Special Needs
- One Step Closer to Access: IFLA Welcomes Progress towards EU Ratification of Marrakesh
Last week, the Council of Ministers of the European Union, representing its Member States, voted to approve the ratification of the Marrakesh Treaty. This opens the way to the EU and its 28 Member...
News - 20 February 2018
Tags: Access to information, Europe, Marrakesh Treaty, Services to the visually impaired, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Guidelines for Library Services for People who are Deaf, Hard of hearing or Deafblind
The LSN meeting in Berlin, 2016 decided to move forward with updating guidelines to people who are Deaf, Hard of Hearing or Deafblind. The need for the new guidelines emerged due to the...
Informational Page - 18 August 2017
Tags: Guidelines, Library services to people with disabilities, Services to the visually impaired, Library Services to People with Special Needs
- LSN annual report 2015-2016
This annual report is based on the LSN 2014 – 2019 Strategic Plan and relates to activities from September 2015 to August 2016 Our action plan for 2016-2017 is available on our...
Publication - 17 August 2017
Tags: Library services to people with disabilities, Services to the visually impaired, Social inclusion, Annual reports, Library Services to People with Special Needs
- Access to Information for the Visually Impaired – Latin American Libraries Stand Ready to Help
When countries around the world came together to discuss how to give visually impaired people easier access to books, libraries were at the heart of the drive for an ambitious, legally binding...
News - 4 July 2016
Tags: Access to information, Marrakesh Treaty, Services to the visually impaired, WIPO, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Major Step for Access to Knowledge for Visually Impaired
Canada's ratification of the Marrakesh Treaty starts the clock ticking towards its entry into force, giving some of the most vulnerable people in the world much wider access to works of...
News - 30 June 2016
Tags: Access to knowledge, Copyright, Services to the visually impaired, WIPO, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Un grand pas en avant en matière de l’accès au savoir pour les déficients visuels
La ratification canadienne du Traité de Marrakech signifie que la date de son entrée en force est maintenant fixée pour le 30 septembre. Ce Traité...
News - 30 June 2016
Tags: Access to knowledge, Copyright, Services to the visually impaired, WIPO, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Take Part - Human Perspectives on Inclusive Publishing
Take Part - Human Perspectives on Inclusive Publishing is a global conference on inclusive publishing and accessible reading, arranged by the Swedish Agency for Accessible Media together with the...
Event - 18 May 2016
Tags: Access to information, Audiovisual and multimedia resources, Conference, Information literacy, Library services to people with disabilities, Publishing, Services to the visually impaired, Sweden, National Information and Library Policy
- Partners for Accessibility – IFLA and Latin American Blind Union sign Memorandum of Understanding
Equitable access to information is central to the work of libraries. Thanks to libraries, people are discovering the world’s cultural and scientific riches, regardless of their wealth,...
News - 9 May 2016
Tags: Access to information, Copyright, Library services to people with disabilities, Marrakesh Treaty, Services to the visually impaired, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Open session: The UN Disability Rights Convention
The Library Services to People with Special Needs section's open session The UN Disability Rights Convention: What It Means for Persons with Disabilities and Library Services Worldwide...
News - 16 August 2014
Tags: Access to information, Library services to people with disabilities, Services to the visually impaired, Library Services to People with Special Needs
- UNESCO encourages Member States to implement IFLA policies on Information Literacy and Print Disabled People
The IFLA Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Recommendations and the Libraries Serving People with Print Disabilities (LPD) Manifesto were passed at the 37th UNESCO General Conference...
News - 9 December 2013
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Disadvantaged persons, France, Information literacy, Library services to people with disabilities, Literacy, LPD, MIL, Services to the visually impaired, Information Literacy
- IFLA Welcomes WIPO Treaty for Blind and Print Disabled People
Following two weeks of negotiations in Marrakech, Morocco, Member States of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) formally adopted a ‘Treaty to Improve Access to...
News - 27 June 2013
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Copyright, Morocco, Services to the visually impaired, WIPO, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- IFLA closing statement at WIPO Diplomatic Conference
[WORD] [PDF] Thank you Mr Chair, On behalf of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, but also on behalf of millions of print-disabled and...
Informational Page - 27 June 2013
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Copyright, Services to the visually impaired, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Week two at the WIPO Diplomatic Conference in Marrakesh
The WIPO Diplomatic Conference to conclude a Treaty to facilitate access to published works by visually impaired persons and persons with print disabilities has now entered its...
News - 25 June 2013
Tags: Access to information, Advocacy, Copyright, Morocco, Services to the visually impaired, WIPO, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Start of WIPO Diplomatic Conference to conclude a treaty for the visually impaired
Today the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) starts its two week (17th -28th of June) Diplomatic Conference to conclude a Treaty to facilitate access to published works by...
News - 18 June 2013
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Copyright, Morocco, Services to the visually impaired, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Joint Library Statement Urges WIPO Member States to Agree an Effective Treaty for Print Disabled People
Organisations representing library associations, library consortia, and professional librarians in over 150 countries urge WIPO Member States to agree an effective treaty for print disabled people...
News - 11 June 2013
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Copyright, Services to the visually impaired, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Treaty for print disabled people
Organisations representing library associations, library consortia, and professional librarians in over 150 countries urge WIPO Member States to agree an effective treaty for print disabled people...
Informational Page - 11 June 2013
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Copyright, Services to the visually impaired
- Library Services to People with Special Needs Annual Session: “Accessibility: High Tech for Access”
The program will start with presentations to introduce access technology products, software and devices. Participants will then visit a "Technology Petting Zoo," where people (companies...
Event - 30 May 2013
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Acquisitions, Audiovisual and multimedia resources, Best practices, Digital divide, Digital resources, Disadvantaged persons, Education, Education and training, Electronic document delivery, Electronic resources, Library services to people with disabilities, Programme, Services to the visually impaired, Singapore, Social inclusion, Library Services to People with Special Needs
- Join Us On Facebook!
Facebook Page: Created in 2009 by Former Chair, Tone Eli Moseid, our Facebook Page is an OPEN Group and provides an INTERNATIONAL FORUM for the discussion of ideas, sharing...
News - 23 October 2012
Tags: Current Events, Facebook Page, Information professionals, Library and information profession, Library services to people with disabilities, Lifelong learning, LSN, Multicultural populations, New professionals, Performance indicators, Professional development, Services to the visually impaired, Success stories, Women’s issues, Library Services to People with Special Needs
- 19th Session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights
Geneva, Switzerland December 14-18, 2009 From the floor with Barbara Stratton (IFLA) and Janice Pilch (LCA) on 15 December [first & second from the left] The World Intellectual...
News - 13 January 2010
Tags: Audiovisual and multimedia resources, Copyright, Intellectual property, Services to the visually impaired, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Oslo satellite conference 2010
"WITH THE RIGHT TO READ" Oslo IFLA pre-conference on reading August 7th - 9th 2010 IFLA satellite conference on Reading for all -...
Informational Page - 21 July 2009
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Digital divide, Disadvantaged persons, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Freedom to read, Library services to people with disabilities, Reading, Services to the visually impaired, Library Services to People with Special Needs