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Conference Session 70

The UN Disability Rights Convention: What It Means for Persons with Disabilities and Library Services Worldwide

Library Services to Persons with Special Needs

17 August 2014 13:45 - 15:45 | Room: Auditorium Lumière | SI

Welcome Speech
BARBARA LISON (IFLA Governing Board Member)
Introduction
VERONICA L C STEVENSON-MOUDAMANE (Chair of IFLA/LSN)
The CRPD and its impact for library services-a perspective from the CRPD Committee
THERESIA DEGENER (UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities /Protestant University of Applied Studies, Bochum, Germany)
Implementing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; Roles of Libraries and Librarians in Japan
HIROSHI KAWAMURA (The Nippon Lighthouse, Tokyo Japan)
Des bibliothèques accessibles et inclusives : quelques exemples de bonnes pratiques en France
MARIE-NOËLLE ANDISSAC (Bibliothèque de Toulouse, Toulouse, France)
The role of libraries in the implementation of the Marrakesh Treaty for persons with a print disability
FRANCISCO JAVIER MARTÍNEZ CALVO (National Organization of Spanish Blind persons (ONCE); Madrid, Spain)

Ensuring library access for disabled persons on the basis of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) The UN CRPD and library services, the role of libraries and librarians in developing accessible libraries, and France's success in developing library access.

Last update: 21 July 2014