The Library Services to People with Special Needs Section: An Historical Overview [1931-2009]
| dc.audience | Audience::Equitable and Accessible Library Services Section | |
| dc.contributor.author | Panella, Nancy Mary | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-12-10T15:13:44Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-12-10T15:13:44Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-12-10 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011-08-02 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Established on 29 August 1931 as the "Sub-committee on Hospital Libraries (patients’ libraries)", the Library Services to People with Special Needs Section was the seventh sub-committee IFLA formed and the first to focus on library services for a special user group. Its mission was to promote professional library services to hospitalized people - a group who, because they were confined, could not make use of regular library resources. Bibliotherapy, or the use of books and reading as aids to healing, was a second focus. But, the sub-committee soon saw that, due to a range of disabilities that often were secondary to the cause of hospitalization, some patients required special materials - sensory and mobility aids, for example - as well as special services. That need also became evident among community members confined for any number of reasons. Concerned with those needs and, by virtue of a diverse membership, well-positioned to address them, the sub-committee overtime expanded its focus to include people who for whatever reason were unable to use conventional libraries, materials and services. Throughout its long and productive history, the section has remained remarkably true to its mission, thus it continues today to advocate for those in the community who cannot make use of conventional library resources. Those groups include: people who are hospitalized or imprisoned; elderly and disabled people in care facilities; the housebound; the deaf; and the physically, cognitively or developmentally disabled. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.ifla.org/handle/20.500.14598/3698 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) | |
| dc.rights.holder | International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) | |
| dc.rights.license | CC BY 4.0 | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | Library services to people with special needs | |
| dc.subject | Library and information history | |
| dc.title | The Library Services to People with Special Needs Section: An Historical Overview [1931-2009] | |
| dc.type | Article | |
| ifla.Unit | Section::Equitable and Accessible Library Services Section | |
| ifla.oPubId | 0 |