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

Part2:Country studies

South Korea

Overlaps - are they a problem?

Production of reading materials is duplicated. As is clear from the discussion under the models section, there is a lack of clarity about roles and responsibilities between specialist libraries and between the private not-for-profit sector and public libraries.

Gaps between policy and practice

There has been no specific policy for organising services for visually impaired people up to now. Running the library for visually impaired people has been difficult because the budget was uncertain. Despite this situation, specialist libraries are making efforts to provide a better service, with fundraising and use of volunteers.

These gaps exist because the interest of government in the needs of visually impaired and print disabled people is limited.