Disability awareness in collection management
Description
This is a problem-based learning activity that is designed to raise awareness of the needs of disabled users when organising information in libraries, and to alert students to issues and to some resources that can be used to inform decision-making.
Please click here for the tutor's guide which will provide a full description of the materials available:
www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/limes/resources/disability_tutors_guide.pdfAuthor
Ms Jacqueline Chelin, Deputy Librarian, University of the West of England, Bristol
Keywords
Employability, Disability, Collection Management
Employability skills addressed
Awareness of legislation, stock collection, maintenance and promotion, customer care
Materials Available (Download all of these resources here)
- Tutor's Guide
- A flowchart which charts the process of organising information in a new library environment (PowerPoint)
- A 'case study' detailing the considerations, the challenges and the resolutions (Word document - Includes a task which can be used for assessment.)
- The 'case study', as above, with web links (HTML document)
Evaluation
Please click here to download two evaluation documents: Tutor's Evaluation and Evaluation by students.
A learning object (importable into a VLE):
Download Here:
http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/limes/resources/disability_uwe.zip
Or view online here:
http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/limes/resources/uwe/
These materials were created for the FDTL5 LIMES Project
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