IFLA World Library and Information Congress
79th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
Session 102 - Accessibility: Hi Tech for Access
Library Services to People with Special Needs

19 August 2013　 09:30 - 12:45 | Off-site

This Session will focus on access technologies that enable libraries to offer a higher quality of life to these who are afflicted with physical, mental or cognitive disabilities and, therefore, are unable to access current library services.

The program will start with presentations to introduce access technology products, software and devices. Participants will then visit a "Technology Petting Zoo," where people (companies, industries, organizations, libraries, etc.) can use a hands-on approach to explore what might be involved if they were interested in or in need of acquiring such technology for their establishment. Toward the end of the session there will be time for discussion among the participants about how we may best promote access technologies in the near future.

Welcome

Ms. Veronica L C Stevenson-Moudamane, LSN Chair

Keynote Speech

"My computer is not dyslexic: reading, writing, and machine intelligence".

Prof. Dr. Michael Seadle

Michael Seadle has written articles, chapters, and books on a wide range of subjects including computing management, copyright, digitization, long term digital archiving and German history. He currently serves as Director of the Berlin School for Library and Information Science, Dean of the Faculty of Arts I and chair of the Commission on Research Ethics at Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin. He is also editor of the peer-reviewed academic journal Library Hi Tech and a member of the editorial board for Bibliothek: Forschung und Praxis, Reference Services Review, and World Digital Libraries: An International Journal. He is somewhat dyslexic and discusses this openly with students

Presenters

Audio index Libraries are worth listening to! - Audio-based library service combined with RFID reader and audio player.

Lars Eriksson (Audioindex AB, Sweden)

Lars Eriksson, product manager at Open Library Solutions which is based in Umeå, Sweden and works primarily with library web.
Lars previously worked at Umeå City Library as IT and System Manager.　He has worked with libraries since 1996 and were between 2006 to 2009 head of the "mylibrary" project, an innovative library web that set the standard for libraries in Scandinavia.
Lars has a passion for books and has a personal collection of over 700 fantasy and science fiction books.

Downloading talking books to e-book reader in Sweden.

Bitte Kronkvist (Swedish Agency for Accessible Media(MTM))

Bitte Kronkvist is Manager of the Marketing Division of Swedish Agency for Accessible Media(MTM) in Sweden. She has been working with Library Service to persons with print disabilities for over 20 years. She has among other things developed the Swedish model of cooperation with University Libraries and the service to student with print disabilities.

Heidi Carlsson Asplund (Library in the Municipal of Lerum, Sweden)

Heidi Carlsson Asplund works as a librarian on the Main Library of Lerum in Sweden. She works with library services for people with special needs. Inclusion, participation and equality for all people is a great matter of democracy and concern. Talkingbooks are one way to give access to literature and information. Standing Committee Member of Library Services to Persons with Special Needs (2013-)

Search and read books online with PLEXTALK through DAISY Online Delivery protocol / DAISY/digital talking book players and recorders of your choice, DAISY authoring tools for libraries and local communities

Mr. Hiroaki Mizukami(Technology Products Business Unit,Shinano Kenshi Co., Ltd. (PLEXTALK) , Japan）

Mr. Hiroaki Mizukami is working for Shinano Kenshi Co., Ltd., the largest manufacturer of DAISY digital talking book players and recorders, as the Assistant General Manager of Assistive Technology Products Business Unit The company was one of the inventors of the DAISY standard in 1990s and it has been designing and producing DAISY recording, authoring and playback hardware and software under the brand name of PLEXTALK. He is responsible for the global sales and marketing of PLEXTALK.

Free production tools to create e-pub contents and inexpensive e-book readers

Mr. Dipendra Manochoa ( Developing countries coordinator of DAISY Consortium)

Mr. Dipendra Manocha is working with the DAISY Consortium which is working in the area of providing publications in accessible formats to persons who cannot read normal print. He is the lead of training and technical support and coordinates DAISY Consortium's projects in developing countries. Member of the Executive Committee of the World Blind Union, Managing Trustee of Saksham, .President of the DAISY Forum of India which is a network of 92 organisations in India serving the persons with blindness and low vision (www.daisyindia.org). .Since 1993, he has been working for the mission of providing technology solutions to limit the limitations of persons with blindness. Key areas of his contribution include computer training to open new areas in education and employment, Indian Language Braille translation and screen reading software, DAISY standards for production and distribution of digital talking, Braille and e-text books in South Asian Countries

Accessible multimedia contents in PC, tablet computers and mobile phones

Mr. Hiroshi Kawamura (Assistive Technology Development Organization -Japan)

Hiroshi Kawamura is a founder and a Board member of the DAISY Consortium The Consortium has developed standards for accessible multimedia known as DAISY and EPUB3, the industry standard for electronic publishing, in collaboration with the IDPF. He worked as a Librarian / University of Tokyo Library (1970-1997), Director of the Information Center/JSRPD (1997-2003), Director of the Division of Social Rehabilitation/NRCD Research Institute (2003-2008), Vice President/Assistive Technology Development Organization (2008- ). Contributed as the Chair of the Section of Libraries for the Blind/IFLA (1990-1995), the UN World Summit on the Information Society Disability Focal Point, the Manager of the DAISY for All Project (2003-2008) and the President of the DAISY Consortium (2008-2011). He is now focusing on knowledge sharing system development with special consideration on Disaster Risk Reduction of persons with disabilities and harmonization of rights of access to knowledge and copyrights.

Ms. Misako Nomura (Japanese Society for Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities)

Misako Nomura is Director of Information Center, Japanese Society for Rehabilitation Persons with Disabilities. She is responsible for updating and maintaining an accessible bilingual website, "DINF (Disability Information Resources- http;//www.dinf.ne.jp) in Japan. She has been promoting information accessibility from the perspective of "easy to read" concept and DAISY Multimedia for children with reading problems. Standing Committee Member of IFLA/Library Serving Persons with Print Disabilities (2005 to 2012), Standing Committee Member of Library Services for People with Special Needs (2013-), Committee Member of Library Services for Persons with Disabilities, Japan Library Association (2003-), Executive Committee Member of Duskin Leadership Program for Young Persons with Disabilities in the Asia and Pacific(1999-) and Secretary General of Japan DAISY Consortium(2009-)

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(only Hands On Introduction at Booth)

"The Infocomm Accessibility Centre, through its Assistive Technology Loan Library, provides equipment that individuals with print disability can loan in order to read books and other printed material. These include DAISY readers, OCR Scanners, handheld magnifiers. The centre also has a team of AT Specialists who can provide consultation and assessment to help individuals make a decision about the device that best meet their reading needs."

It is required to register in advance to attend this session

Contact E-mail for registration: nomura@dinf.ne.jp/ hmo@ltk.dk

Location: Central Public Library, National Library Board Singapore (10 minutes on foot from the conference centre)

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