Disability - visual impairment

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Developments following the course, "Improving our services for blind and partially sighted people: implementing the Six Steps and more" | 28 August 2012

Lots of activities were carried out across LibrariesWest as a result of and inspired by the seminar, including: Drop in sessions at Thornbury and Downend libraries (South Gloucestershire) to provid...

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MANIL 2012 - Devon Libraries | 17 May 2012

Devon have agreed an itinerary for both Devon In Sight and Action for Blind People to be jointly available at several libraries during MANIL. Abigail Jones from ABP and Ben Gavan from Devon In Sigh...

MANIL 2012 - Southend Libraries | 17 May 2012

Southend Libraries have put together an exciting programme of free events to tie in with this year’s Make a Noise in Libraries Fortnight (MANIL) which runs from 11 - 24 June 2012. They have a...

MANIL 2012 - Dudley Libraries | 17 May 2012

Dudley have organised a programme of information events. They have also organised a training session for staff from their Vision support team, and have organised a visit from a poet to do a perform...

Nominations for Jodi Awards 2011 now open | 22 June 2011

Have you been working on a project which uses digital media to widen access to information, collections and learning for disabled people? If so, we would like to hear about your project. Nomination...

Libraries Change Lives Award 2011 Finalists announced | 8 June 2011

The three projects in the running for this prestigious annual award are: 1. The NEALIS project (North East Accessible Library and Information Services) Providing improving library, information and ...

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