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

Part 3:Appendices

Section D - Libraries Specialising in Providing Materials to Visually Impaired People

Definitions

What definitions of “visual impairment” do specialist libraries for Visually Impaired People in your country use?

Do you think these definitions are inclusive enough? If not, what definition would you suggest?

How do you think the definitions in use affect the measures of how many Visually Impaired

People there are in your country (for example, over-estimating or under-estimating them)?

What definitions of “print impairment” do specialist libraries in your country use?

What is the relationship between services for visually impaired people and print impaired people in specialist libraries in your country? (For example, are they provided by the same organisations or from the same budget?)

What do you think will happen to the relationship between services for the visually impaired and for the print impaired in your country over the next five years?

Please make any comments you think are relevant on the position of print impaired people when you are answering any of the questions

What is the difference if any between the standards specialist libraries for Visually Impaired People use when deciding if someone is a visually-impaired reader, and the standards that your government uses to determine the number of visually-impaired people?