About the Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities Section

Supported by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, where it is stated that print disabled people have the right to equal access to books, knowledge and information at the same time, cost and quality as everyone else, and recognizing the fact that as of today only 5% of the world's published information is fully accessible to persons with a print disability.

Our Mission

The mission of the IFLA LPD is to advocate for library services that are equitable and accessible for persons with a print disability.

Our Goals

  1. Establish a global accessible library of accessible material
  2. Influence international policy on access to knowledge and information
  3. Establish and support guidelines of best practice
  4. Raise the profile of LPD and accessible library services within the library community

Actions Following from Our Goals

  1. To establish a global accessible library for people with print disabilities
  2. To partner and co-operate with other organizations to influence international policy on access to knowledge and information
  3. To establish and support guidelines and best practice for accessible library and information services
  4. To raise the profile of LPD and accessible library services within the library community

Mailing lists & social media

Join us on Facebook: IFLA LPD Group

IFLA-LPD
This is LPD's open mailing list.The IFLA-LPD is a forum for discussing matters of interest relating to libraries and information services serving persons with print disabilities. Anyone interested in these topics is welcome to join the list!

To subscribe to this List, please go to the:
IFLA-LPD Web interface and follow the instructions to subscribe.

To submit messages to the list, send your message to
ifla-lpd@iflalists.org

Note that IFLA-LPD is restricted to subscribers, i.e. you have to be a member to send and receive messages.

Administrator: Christiane Felsmann 


LPDSC
This is IFLA LPD's Standing Committee's mailing list.LPDSC is a closed list, i.e. it is restricted to LPD Standing Committee members only.

To subscribe to this list, please go to the:
LPDSC Web interface and follow the instructions to subscribe.

To submit messages to the list, send your message to
lpdsc@iflalists.org

Administrator:  Christiane Felsmann

LPD Presentations

Webpage with presentations for and about the LPD Section

Awards

Section Archive

Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities

Last update: 22 June 2020