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Number 69, December 2009 twenty LSN Standing Committee Contents members and section friends had a Editorial ...... 1 rare look inside an Italian prison. IFLA Conference: review ...... Read Vibeke Lehmann’s account of 2 the visit on pages 4-5. Prison Library Visit in Como . . . . . 4 Articles In May this year I joined a delegation Estonian Library for the Blind . . . . of Scottish librarians on a study tour 5 and conference in Finland. At this Exposition «Lire à l’hôpital». . . . . 8 Twin Cities Conference I was very Book Review interested to hear about an The way I see it: a personal look at innovative service available from the Autism and Asperger’s...... Estonian Library for the Blind where 11 audio books are created ‘on demand’ IFLA Journal Article...... 13 and posted out to readers. In 2008 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award the service won the ‘Deed of the 13 Year’ Award from the Estonian New Resources...... Library Association. I am delighted to 14 include an article about this service LSPSN Standing Committee. . . 15 by the Librarian, Marja Kivihall (See pages 5-8).

Congratulations to Nancy Panella Editorial who has had a very informative and comprehensive article on the history Welcome to the December issue of of the LSN Section published in the the LSN Newsletter! In this issue we IFLA Journal (an abstract is reprinted review the 75th World Library and on page 13). Information Congress and IFLA General Conference in Milan, Italy. All the very best for 2010! This year our section held a session on “Reading and literacy promotion Margaret E S Forrest, Editor in prison”. The follow day, around

IFLA Library Services to People with Special Needs Section Newsletter (No. 69) December 2009 Page 1 Next copy date is 1 June 2010 Editorial address: Edinburgh University Library, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Wm. Robertson Building, George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9YJ. Scotland. UK [email protected] IFLA Conference Review Les bibliothèques des établissements pénitentiaires en France: l’exemple de la région Rhône-Alpes ODILE CRAMARD (Agence Rhône- Alpes pour le livre et la documentation (ARALD), Lyon, World Library and Information France) Congress: 75th IFLA General Conference and Council En France, il est prévu que chaque établissement pénitentiaire possède "Libraries create futures: une bibliothèque dont la localisation Building on cultural heritage" doit permettre un accès direct et régulier des détenus à l’ensemble August 23rd -27th 2009, des documents. Cependant, l’État, Milan, Italy qui est responsable des établissements, n’a pas créé de poste de bibliothécaires pour gérer This year the LSN Section held a ces bibliothèques et ce sont les session entitled, “Reading and professionnels des bibliothèques literacy promotion in prison: model municipales et départementales qui library programmes”, which took interviennent de façon volontaire place on Tuesday 25th August. dans les prisons. Le fonctionnement de ces bibliothèques, mais aussi leur The full text of a number of the fragilité et les difficultés rencontrés presentations is available from the seront évoqués à partir de l’examen IFLA Conference website at de la situation en Rhône-Alpes. http://www.ifla.org/annual- conference/ifla75/programme2009- en.php Les bibliothèques communales en prison à Rome The following is an outline of the FABIO DE GROSSI (Biblioteche di LSN session programme with Roma, Rome, Italy) abstracts, where available. En France, il est prévu que chaque établissement pénitentiaire possède une bibliothèque dont la localisation doit permettre un accès direct et

IFLA Library Services to People with Special Needs Section Newsletter (No. 69) December 2009 Page 2 régulier des détenus à l’ensemble y efectivo en cuanto a nuevas des documents. Cependant, l’État, técnicas y su aplicación, a la vez que qui est responsable des se ofrece la posibilidad de realizar établissements, n’a pas créé de futuros estudios comparativos. De poste de bibliothécaires pour gérer este modo, se identifican las mejores ces bibliothèques et ce sont les prácticas, se analiza la metodología, professionnels des bibliothèques se investiga el grado de novedad e municipales et départementales qui innovación en su aplicación en estos interviennent de façon volontaire entornos, de acuerdo a la cultura del dans les prisons. Le fonctionnement país, a la legislación, al soporte de ces bibliothèques, mais aussi leur social y a las características de la fragilité et les difficultés rencontrés comunidad a quien va dirigido. seront évoqués à partir de l’examen de la situation en Rhône-Alpes.

Breaking barriers with books: connecting incarcerated fathers Modelos y programas de with their children promoción de la lectura y VIBEKE LEHMANN (Library and alfabetización en los Education Technology Consultant, penitenciarios de España Madison, USA) MARGARITA PÉREZ PULIDO (University of Extremadura, Faculty This paper describes "Breaking of Library & Information Science, Barriers with Books," an innovative Badajoz, Spain) and successful intergenerational prison literacy and reading program El presente trabajo parte de la base, which has been active for suficientemente estudiada y fourteen years at the Oshkosh documentada, de la eficacia de la Correctional Institution in the state of lectura, y en consecuencia de la Wisconsin, USA. It describes the escritura, como elemento theoretical framework for the rehabilitador en entornos de program, developed in 1995 by Dr. población en situación de Margaret Genisio, a University of desventaja, en concreto, en centros Wisconsin professor of reading, as penitenciarios. Los programas de well as the various components of fomento y promoción de la lectura en the program. The paper includes entornos penitenciarios son samples of writings by inmate fathers adoptados en la actualidad en todos who have participated in the los países, aunque su estilo, program, as well as testimony from contenido y grado de aplicación them on the importance of this book difieren de acuerdo a la propia sharing program for themselves and cultura y la legislación que los their children. Information is also acoge, de ahí la importancia de included on other prison reading and presentar este análisis de lo que se literacy programs, and the author realiza en nuestro país, al objeto de highlights the many factors that dar a conocer aquello más novedoso

IFLA Library Services to People with Special Needs Section Newsletter (No. 69) December 2009 Page 3 contribute to the success of this After formal welcoming remarks by program. Director Mazotta and Antonio Angelo Boi, Regional Deputy Prison Commissioner, the visitors were oooOooo joined in the auditorium by a group of male inmates and staff members and watched a slide presentation* prepared by Ida Morosini about the IFLA Conference Participants Visit prison library and its services, as Prison Library in Como well as other cultural programs available to the inmates. Beatrice Vibeke Lehmann Rumi, representing the Como regional & municipal library system About twenty LSN Standing of which the Bassone library is a Committee members and section member, explained the many friends got a rare look inside an cooperative programs between the Italian prison and its library during prison library and the community. their visit to the Bassone Casa After these very informative Circondariale in Como on 26th presentations, several individual August. The Bassone prison is a inmates gave enthusiastic and medium security facility with a emotional testimonials about the population of about 600 - both males important role that the library, and and females. The visit was organized especially the librarian, had played by LSN in coordination with the during their incarceration by Como/Lombardy prison encouraging them to read and learn administration and the ABC Group and by providing them with important (Associazione Biblioteche resources for their return to society. Carcerarie) of the Italian Library After these presentations, the visitors Association (AIB). The visit was had a chance to talk with some of planned as an added component to the inmates, several of whom the previous day's LSN session, expressed their appreciation for the "Reading and Literacy Promotion in interest the IFLA participants had Prison: Model Library Programmes." shown by coming to visit.

The prison administration generously provided bus transportation between Milan and the Bassone prison, and the visitors, who had passed security clearance in advance, were cordially greeted upon arrival inside the gate by Prison Director, Teresa Mazotta, and the entire administrative staff, as well as teachers, social workers, and the prison librarian, Ida Morosini.

IFLA Library Services to People with Special Needs Section Newsletter (No. 69) December 2009 Page 4 After refreshments in the canteen, successful reintegration into the the visitors toured the prison and the community. The Bassone library library (there are two separate library plays an important in this regard and locations - one for males and one for offers many community, job, and females). The collection consists of health related materials. An about 12,000 items, both fiction and important library project is the non-fiction. The materials are recently published e-book on obtained mainly through donations, HIV/AIDS, developed by the but the library also has a modest inmates. The inmates also have budget for new purchases. There is produced, as a community service, high demand for popular materials in audio-recordings of fairytales which many different languages, since the are distributed to sick children in inmate population includes a high hospitals. percentage of non-Italians. The materials are fully cataloged, and the After having toured the library librarian can request additional titles facilities which, while quite small, are through the regional online catalog. bright and welcoming spaces with Computers (not connected to the colorful decorations, the IFLA visitors Internet!) are available for accessing were treated to a delicious lunch in a variety of reference resources, but the prison garden where there was they are primarily used as part of a ample opportunity for conversation 90-hour training program that with the prison staff. The prison bus educates inmates in a wide range of then carried the visitors back to library tasks and functions, enabling Milan after a day filled with new them to assist the volunteer-librarian experiences, especially for those in managing the library. This training who had never "been in prison" also provides the inmates with many before. skills that can help them find jobs after release from prison. For more information about the Bassone prison library, visit its website http://bibliobassone.altervista.org

*Slides available from SlideShare at http://www.slideshare.net/bibliobasso ne/evento-ifla-26-08-2009

Articles Recent Italian justice legislation places great emphasis on the role the prison plays in the rehabilitation Estonian Library for the Blind of prisoners and the resources Marja Kivihall, Librarian provided to assist them with

IFLA Library Services to People with Special Needs Section Newsletter (No. 69) December 2009 Page 5 The Estonian Library for the Blind, Audio books produced in Russian at set up in 1947 in Tallinn, is the our library are also sent to Norway, largest library to serve blind and Sweden and Australia. other print disabled people in Estonia. In Soviet times the library In partnership with the Norwegian functioned as part of the blind Library of Talking Books and Braille, people’s enterprise and later as a the Russian-language audio books foundation. In 2004 it became the produced in mp3 format at our library branch of the Repository Library of are transformed in Norway into Estonia being administered and DAISY books for their own use. One funded by the Ministry of Culture. copy of each DAISY book is returned The library staff consists of 11 to us for making as many copies for people, 4 of whom are visually our readers as required. impaired. The services of the Estonian Library The main activities include editing for the Blind are used by more than and publishing Braille materials, 400 people ranging from recording audio books and journals, schoolchildren to retired people. The cataloguing and lending literature. library also has a number of Library holdings cover audio books Estonian patrons living in Canada, (2350 titles), Braille materials (650 who were forced to leave their titles) and tactile books (60 titles). homeland during the World War II. Besides literature in Estonian we The majority of patrons are visually also have books in Russian, English, impaired, only some have other German and Finnish. impairments (e.g. dyslexia, intellectual disability).

The Estonian Library for the Blind provides the following services:  lending literature at the library;  lending books, newspapers and magazines by mail;  sending electronic newspapers by e-mail;  interlibrary lending;  access to the system for reading electronic texts. The Estonian Library for the Blind is the biggest publisher of talking and Patrons can borrow 5 audio, 5 Braille Braille materials in Estonia, and 2 tactile books at a time. In the producing approximately 100 audio last few years the number of library and 70 Braille titles a year. Literature visits and loans has considerably in Estonian and Russian is also increased, having reached close to acquired through book exchanges the total of 1800 visits and 10 000 with the Finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian loans per year in 2008. and Russian libraries for the blind.

IFLA Library Services to People with Special Needs Section Newsletter (No. 69) December 2009 Page 6 Sixty patrons use the electronic  developing the Internet based newspaper service providing them electronic catalogue; with texts of the three main Estonian  implementing the on-demand daily newspapers 6 times a week by lending system; e-mail.  providing access to the system for reading electronic Interlibrary lending is a convenient texts; way to borrow books, especially for  DAISY book production. people living in the countryside. Literature is delivered to patrons One of the recent innovations through 10 public libraries in different involves on-demand lending of parts of Estonia. books, i.e. an audio book is personally made for and sent to a In January 2009, blind and partially patron by mail without the request of sighted people in Estonia were, for returning it. The main reason for the first time, given access to implementing such service was the electronic texts via computer which fact that as of January 2008 the was enabled through a partnership Estonian Library for the Blind had to project of the Institute of the start paying for the postal services Estonian Language, the North- for the readers while until then it had Estonian Society of the Blind and the been free. The library adopted the Estonian Library for the Blind. similar system as used at Celia Currently only Estonian language Library for the Visually Impaired in news is available in synthesized Finland. speech, but future access will extend this to magazines, newspapers and books. The Estonian Library for the Blind administers the service and is responsible for adding new texts.

In recent years the development of our library has mostly involved technical aspects to improve the quality and quantity of production, as well as making services more accessible to patrons. Since 2006 the following innovations have been Valentina Borissenko and the CD duplicator implemented: In spring 2008, the CD duplicator  production of audio books on was purchased from the USA, CDs in mp3 format instead of followed by the installation and cassettes; testing period in summer. First on-  making tactile graphics for the demand audio books were sent to Braille textbooks; the patrons in September last year.  digitization of old talking books; The on-demand lending system has been warmly welcomed by library

IFLA Library Services to People with Special Needs Section Newsletter (No. 69) December 2009 Page 7 users. Until March, literature was and remarkable action in the sent to patrons once a week, now category of special libraries. once in two weeks. Such change is caused by the increased cost of postal services for the library and its oooOooo reduced budget. Each patron can borrow 5 titles at a time for one month and the loans are registered in the electronic catalogue. The number of loans has notably Exposition « Lire à l’hôpital : les increased within a year. In médiathèques de l’Assistance September 2008 the figure was Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris » close to 200, in the first months of 2009 it ranged between 400 and 600 Claudie Guérin and in October 700 loans were registered. The user-friendly service Souvent symbole d’exclusion et de has become popular and patrons’ huis clos, l’hôpital est pourtant un satisfaction with the library has lieu singulier de transmission grown significantly. culturelle dans lequel le livre et la lecture trouvent un écho particulier. The selection of on-demand audio A travers le regard du photographe books broadens all the time Eric Garault, ces instants de lecture, representing mostly fiction, both in captés patiemment au fil des Estonian and Russian. When on- rencontres, témoignent de l’offre demand books were first available, développée chaque jour par le patrons could choose from around réseau des médiathèques de 300 titles. Currently, the there are l’Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de more than 900 books but this is still Paris. less than half of the whole audio book collection. Such limited selection is caused by the character of recordings which has to be digital and comply with copyright law. We can lend on-demand only our own productions, as well as the audio books published by those producers with whom we have come to agreements.

To our great surprise our efforts of starting the on-demand lending system were noticed by the Estonian Librarians Association in October 2008 when the award ”Deed of the year” was given to the Estonian Immergé pendant plusieurs jours Library for the Blind for the effective dans les chambres, salles d’attente,

IFLA Library Services to People with Special Needs Section Newsletter (No. 69) December 2009 Page 8 chambres stériles, médiathèques et d’écrivains et des reportages au services de soins, le photographe Salon du livre de jeunesse et de la suggère l’échappée belle que presse de Montreuil. procure la lecture. « J’ai découvert (www.ericgarault.com) de vrais lieux de vie : des lectures groupées, des passages rapides, de Cette exposition, constituée de 28 longs moments face aux postes photographies, sera présentée dans Internet, une fébrile recherche ou les établissements hospitaliers qui d’étonnantes postures de lecture. en feront la demande. Elle fait L’activité soutenue du personnel également partie du catalogue des contraste avec le calme du lecteur. expositions itinérantes de la C’est à cet entre-deux et dans le Bibliothèque publique d’information silence de la lecture, juste ponctué du Centre Georges Pompidou afin par le déclenchement incongru de de circuler dans les bibliothèques mon gros boîtier 6X6, que je me suis municipales et départementales de accroché pour réaliser ces images». prêt Dans cette évocation délicate du (http://site.bpi.fr/fr/professionnels/exp corps dans son rapport au livre, Eric ositions_itinerantes/catalogue/lire_a_ Garault joue avec les reflets, les l_hopital.html). L’accueil de cette superpositions, les matières, les exposition dans les bibliothèques cadrages... En y regardant de plus municipales rentre dans le cadre près par le prisme culturel, il propose d’un travail de sensibilisation sur une autre approche de l’hôpital, plus l'importance de la lecture à l'hôpital, sensible et plus humaine. en vue de susciter des projets et des partenariats entre les institutions culturelles et de santé.

Le réseau des médiathèques de l’Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, à l’origine de cette commande faite à l’artiste, mène depuis de nombreuses années une politique de lecture publique dynamique, soutenue par le Ministère de la culture. Dans 20 groupes hospitaliers, les patients et les personnels peuvent emprunter gratuitement livres, revues, CD, films et disposent d’accès internet en libre accès. Véritables lieux de vie, de Le photographe Eric Garault création et d’échanges, les collabore régulièrement avec la médiathèques organisent presse, des institutions et des régulièrement des rencontres entreprises. La question de la lecture littéraires et artistiques permettant occupe également une place ainsi de susciter ou de poursuivre particulière à travers des portraits une activité culturelle à l’hôpital,

IFLA Library Services to People with Special Needs Section Newsletter (No. 69) December 2009 Page 9 facteur essentiel d’humanisation du Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de séjour et d’accompagnement du Paris [a central Parisian hospital]. patient. Immersed for several days in wards, Chiffres-clés 2008 : 345 170 waiting rooms, sterilisation rooms documents mis à disposition, 22 883 and libraries, the photographer agents inscrits, 432 100 documents identifies the gift of a beautiful empruntés par les patients et moment of escape through reading. personnels, 200 évènements “I have discovered real sites of life: culturels organisés. group readings, brief library visits, lengthy periods sitting at Internet Renseignements : Claudie Guérin 10 points, nervous research or rue des Fossés St Marcel 75005 surprising reading positions. The Paris (France) constant activity of the staff contrasts [email protected] with the readers’ calm. It is this pause and the silence of reading, Légende des photos : punctuated only by the somewhat Hôpital Beaujon, passage du chariot incongruous sound of my big 6X6 de livres dans les chambres des camera, that I chose for creating patients these images”. In his delicate Hôpital Robert-Debré evocation of the relationship ©Photothèque numérique AP-HP, between the body and the book, Eric Eric Garault Garault plays with reflections, superimposition, materials, <<< >>> compositions... By looking more closely through society’s distorting English translation lens, he suggests a different by Catherine Forrest approach to hospitals, one which is more sensitive and humane. “Reading in the Hospital: Multimedia Libraries in the Assistance Publique- Photographer Eric Garault regularly Hôpitaux de Paris”: An Exhibition works with the press, as well as with institutions and businesses. The Though often seen as symbols of concept of reading also holds an exclusion and of a “behind closed important place in portraits of writers doors” attitude, hospitals are in fact and in reports on the Salon du livre unique sites of cultural transmission, de jeunesse [a literary organisation in which books and reading have a for young people], and on the special resonance. Through the eyes Montreuil press. of photographer Eric Garault, (www.ericgarault.com) moments of reading, which he has patiently captured on film in the This exhibition, made up of 28 course of encounters in the hospital, photographs, will be shown in highlight the services developed hospitals on request. It is also one of every day by the network of the touring exhibitions of the multimedia libraries at the Georges Pompidou Centre’s

IFLA Library Services to People with Special Needs Section Newsletter (No. 69) December 2009 Page 10 Bibliothèque publique d’information Beaujon Hospital, the book trolley [Public Information Library] aiming to moving through the wards travel around local public libraries The Robert-Debré Hospital http://site.bpi.fr/fr/professionnels/exp ositions_itinerantes/catalogue/lire_a_ l_hopital.html oooOooo

A road-show of this exhibition in Book Review public libraries contributes to a campaign to raise awareness of the Grandin, Temple. The way I see it: importance of reading in hospitals, in a personal look at Autism and order to encourage projects and Asperger’s. Arlington, Texas: partnerships between cultural and Future Horizons Inc., 2008. xxxi, health-related institutions. 260 p. (Dedicated to All Individuals in the Autism Spectrum.) The multimedia library network of Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Reviewed by Nancy Panella Paris, which commissioned the artist, has pursued a dynamic public In her latest book, Temple Grandin, reading policy for many years, who has a high-functioning form of supported by the Ministry of Culture. autism, provides an instructive and In 20 hospital groups, patients and compelling account of autistic staff can borrow books, magazines, disorder, its affects on and CDs and films for free, and enjoy challenges for the individual so free access to the Internet. Real diagnosed, and ways for the sites of life, creation and exchange, person’s family, friends, teachers - the libraries regularly organise and by extension, librarians - to help literary and artistic meetings and in compensate for it. The book’s this way allow people to commence unstated premise is that, once or continue a cultural activity in autism is diagnosed and, more hospital, an essential factor in a importantly, understood, ways can humanisation of the hospital stay often be designed to enable the and care of the patient. person with autism to learn, grow, and realize a better degree of Key figures 2008: 345 170 socialization. documents available, 22 883 employees, 432 100 documents The book is a compilation of short borrowed by patients and staff, 200 papers Grandin previously wrote and cultural events organised. published in autism journals. Written in what has been termed her ‘no- For more information contact: nonsense’ style, she has organized Claudie Guérin 10 Rue des Fossés the essays in chapters that include: St Marcel 75005 Paris (France) the importance of early diagnosis [email protected] and intervention; how adjustments in teaching can help; the sensory Photographs: “overload” people with autism

IFLA Library Services to People with Special Needs Section Newsletter (No. 69) December 2009 Page 11 experience and the subsequent Asperger’s Syndrome, can be behavior they use to try to adapt for extremely intelligent, with good it; understanding nonverbal autism; verbal language and may be able to and behavior issues and social lead independent lives but may still functioning. There is a separate be awkward in social interactions. section on the place of medications and biomedical therapy in treating Throughout Grandin’s book, the autism. diversity seen in people with ASD is emphasized: “Every person with Because it is a series of independent autism is unique, with a different essays of varying lengths, Grandin’s profile of strengths and challenges. book can be read in pieces or No two individuals manifest the sections. Regardless of length, each same characteristics in the same essay is highly informative; all degree of severity”. provide unique insight into the challenges autism presents. Autism usually affects a person’s ability to communicate, to form Autism is a developmental disorder relationships with others, and to estimated to affect 35 million people respond appropriately to the worldwide. It appears to be environment. Although people with increasing globally, although it is autism have different symptoms and unclear whether that statistical different degrees of deficits, they all increase is due to better diagnostic share certain social, communication, tools or to an actual increase in motor and sensory problems that occurrence. affect their behavior in predictable ways. Grandin describes her own It is neurologically-based and struggle with communication” “I can typically manifests itself in the early remember the frustration of not being years of a child’s development. It able to talk. I knew what I wanted to adversely affects the brain in three say, but I could not get the words major areas of functioning: social out, so I would just scream.” interaction; verbal and nonverbal communication; and Grandin further writes: “Children and behaviors/interests, which often are adults with Autism Spectrum specific, consistent and repetitive. Disorders, be they mildly or severely challenged, have one or more of Autism is now diagnosed on a their senses affected to the extent spectrum (Autism Spectrum that it interferes with their ability to Disorder, or ASD) from severe to learn and process information from mild: those at the lower-functioning the world around them. Often, the end of the spectrum may be sense of hearing is the most nonverbal and profoundly unable to affected, but vision, touch, taste, break out of their own world, and smell, balance (vestibular), and they may be diagnosed as having awareness of their body in space autism; those at the higher- (proprioception) can all function functioning end, e.g., those with

IFLA Library Services to People with Special Needs Section Newsletter (No. 69) December 2009 Page 12 abnormally in the person with is, hospitalized people who could not autism.” use external libraries. The young sub-committee soon saw, however, Grandin, who earned a doctorate in that due to a range of disabilities animal science from the University of often secondary to the cause of Illinois in 1989, was diagnosed with hospitalization, some patients autism when she was three years required special reading aids, for old. She credits early supportive example, sensory or mobility aids. intervention with enabling her to Those needs also became evident begin talking in her early years (age among community members, four) and to progress in learning. confined or not. Wanting to address them, the sub-committee expanded For the librarian, an understanding of its focus overtime to include people how people with autism think and who, for whatever reason, could not what causes them to behave in use conventional libraries, materials certain ways is central to being able and services. This paper traces the to provide effective library materials sub-committee’s evolution from and services. It is here that subcommittee, to committee, to sub- Grandin’s essays will prove section, and finally section that today extremely helpful, because they promotes library resources and describe autism and its various services for a broad range of special challenges from the perspective of needs people. Its growth in part one who has dealt with them reflects the expansion of the throughout her lifetime. Federation itself.

The Way I See It includes chapter- Keywords: Library Services to specific bibliographies and also a People with Special Needs Section, relatively detailed text index. IFLA; hospital library services; patient library services; library IFLA Journal Article services for disabled people; library services for disadvantaged people The Library Services to People with Special Needs Section of IFLA Journal is available online at IFLA: an historical overview http://www.ifla.org/publications/ifla- journal This article, written by Nancy Panella, is published in IFLA Journal, News 2009; 35(3): 258-271 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award Abstract The Library Services to People with The Library Services to People with Special Needs Section of IFLA was Special Needs Section has been founded in 1931 as the Sub- nominated for the 2010 Astrid committee on Hospital Libraries. It Lindgren Memorial Award! This was the first sub-committee IFLA award scheme seeks to promote the formed for a special user group, that best in contemporary children's and

IFLA Library Services to People with Special Needs Section Newsletter (No. 69) December 2009 Page 13 young adult literature from all over video refutes these unfounded the world. Candidates have been myths, explains the ADA in common nominated by experts from many sense terms and highlights the different countries and include advantages of hiring qualified authors, illustrators, oral storytellers persons with disabilities. "With more and promoters of reading, working in students with disabilities attending various literary traditions and colleges and universities languages. The LSN Section is listed than ever before, employers should under the name “Libraries for the update their thinking about this Disadvantaged (IFLA)”. highly qualified labor pool. Ten Employment Myths will help The winner(s) of the 2010 Astrid employers understand how unfair it Lindgren Memorial Award will be is when employees with disabilities announced at an event at the are denied jobs because of birthplace of Astrid Lindgren in employers' misconceptions and Vimmerby, Sweden on March 24th. unfounded assumptions," said For further information, visit Thomas E. Perez, Assistant http://www.alma.se/en/ Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. New Resources This fully accessible seventeen- Although the following new minute video can be used for ADA resources relate to specific US training, as well as for presentation legislative mandates, they will also to local Chambers of Commerce, be of interest to people in other Rotary Clubs, merchants countries concerned with associations, and similar accessibility issues… organizations. Single copies in DVD Vibeke Lehmann format can be ordered through the toll-free ADA Information Line at New Video for Employers on 800-514-0301 (voice) or 800-514- Employment of Persons with 0383 (TTY). An online streaming Disabilities version will be available soon on the ADA Web site at http://www.ada.gov/ The US Justice Department has recently announced the release of a The new video is a companion to new video aimed at educating Ten Small Business Mistakes, which employers about the employment is also available at the ADA website. provisions of the Americans with It dispels common Disabilities Act. Ten Employment misunderstandings that many small Myths: Information about the businesses have about title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act uses ADA. Both videos were produced for a question-and-answer format to the Justice Department's ADA express common misconceptions, Technical Assistance Program. fears and false assumptions that many employers have about In the United States, the ADA employees with disabilities. The guarantees individuals with

IFLA Library Services to People with Special Needs Section Newsletter (No. 69) December 2009 Page 14 disabilities equal access to employment, state and local government services [including libraries], and services that businesses provide to the public.

Source: US Department of Justice press release 30th Oct 2009.

IFLA Library Services to People with Special Needs Section Newsletter (No. 69) December 2009 Page 15 Library Services to People with Special Needs Section Standing Committee 2009/10

Chair and Treasurer Ramatoulaye Fofana- Sevestre Tone Eli Moseid Bibliothèque Publique d’Information Norwegian Archive, Library and 25, rue de Renard Museum Authority 75197 Paris Cedex 04 Box 8145 Dep., France N-0033 Oslo [email protected] Norway [email protected] Dunja Marija Gabriel CLA, National and University Library Hrvatske Bratske Zajednice 4 Secretary 10 000 Zagreb Helle Arendrup Mortensen Croatia Lyngby-Taarbaek Kommunes [email protected] Biblioteker Lyngby Hovedgade 28 Elke Greifeneder 2800 Kgs Lyngby, Denmark Institut für Bibliotheks- und [email protected] Informationswissenschaft Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Newsletter Editor/Information [email protected] Officer Margaret E.S. Forrest Claudie Guerin HSS Liaison, Edinburgh University Hopitaux de Paris Library, George Square, Edinburgh, 10 rue des Fosses EH8 9LJ. Scotland. UK St. Marcel [email protected] 75005 Paris, France [email protected] Members Yu Kikuchi Maria Angela Barlotti Japan Hospital Patients’ Library Provincia de Ravenna, Association Servizio Biblioteche 2227-1 Okura, Machida-shi Garatoni, 6 195-0062 Tokyo, Japan 48100 Ravenna, Italy [email protected] [email protected] Youngsook Lee* Corinne de Munain, National Library of Korea Ministère de la Culture et de la San 60-1, Banpo-dong, Communication Secho-gu Seoul 137-702 182 Rue St. Honoré Republic of Korea 75033 Paris Cedex 1, France [email protected] [email protected]

IFLA Library Services to People with Special Needs Section Newsletter (No. 69) December 2009 Page 16 [email protected] Vibeke Lehmann [email protected] Edwin Qobose University of Botswana Library Joanne Locke* Private Bag 00390 Concordia University Gaborone, Botswana Department of Education, 7141 [email protected] Sherbrooke St. West AD 306-2, Montreal, Veronica L. C. Stevenson- Quebec Moudamane Canada H4B 1R6 Mitchell Park Library [email protected] 3700 Middlefield Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 Gyda Skat Nielsen* [email protected] Ahornparken 16, 2970 Hörsholm, Bror Ingemar Tronbacke Denmark Swedish Centre for Easy-to-Read [email protected] Box 9145 10272 Stockholm, Sweden Misako Nomura* E-mail: [email protected] Japanese Society for Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities Lucille Elizabeth Webster 22-1 Toyama 1-chome, Manager Alan Pittendrigh Library Shinjuku-ku, Durban University of Technology Tokyo, Japan P.O. Box 1334 [email protected] 4000 Durban, South Africa E-mail: [email protected] Nancy Mary Panella* St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center 1111 Amsterdam Ave. New York, NY 10025, USA *Corresponding Members

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