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Funding and governance of library and information services for visually impaired people: international case studies

Part2:Country studies

Canada

Models and responsibilities

Service provision: general

All the following organizations are involved in providing library services to visually impaired people in Canada:

• General public libraries
• Specialist libraries for the blind
• Educational libraries
• Charities, voluntary organisations or non-governmental organisations
• Other specialist organisations

The CLA's Opening the Book report [http://www.cla.ca/issues/nnels_final.htm] described the system in Canada as follows: