[access-uk] Re: threat to local library services to VI people: RnIB wants your experiences
- From: Angela Bartram <maudlinmertle@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:46:19 +0100 (BST)
Thanks for this article very useful- as someone with a visual impairment who
works for a local VI society in one of the potentially affected areas and
regularly visits libraries etc with a mobile resource unit, I was very
concerned to read this.
I will bring the issue to everyone's attention immediately. Our clientele is
mainly elderly and the Talking Book Service is invaluable to a large number of
our service users,
Thanks,
Angela
Ray's Home <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The following message was posted to RNIB's Arena Talking Book list and Trudy
Salandiak has said she would welcome the message being posted to other lists
which I and another list member thought it would be good to do as this is,
in my view, an important issue.
I'd say to the list moderators and the list generally, I am not seeking to
start a discussion on this here as it is a bit off-topic I guess. Replies
should go instead to Trudy's RNIB address which I am going to put at the end
of her message to the Arena list as a mailto link.
Finally, if anyone here is subscribed to the Vi-genlist it would be nice if
you could post it to that too as I am not subscribed.
From Ray
I can be contacted off-list at:
mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
Folks, a call to action and for assistance please!
Much as we did for the 70th anniversary last year, we're looking to
build up a portfolio of feedback on the experience of blind and
partially sighted people, but this time concerning public libraries.
This has followed on from rumblings amongst various local authorities in
the country [namely East Riding, Gloucestershire, Portsmouth city and
possibly Hampshire] who are beginning to re-think their commitment to
fund Talking Books. We are soon to be in discussion with them, so we
want to present a series of individual case studies to make our
proposals more 'real'. Possibly go to the local and national media to
highlight the shocking lack of library services to b & ps people,
quoting DDA etc. They are basically saying that they provide a service
(minimal though it may be) so are justified in not paying these
subscriptions.
I would also appreciate any information you may pick up in your local
area about public libraries being closed down, funding cuts etc. that we
could also use.
Tell us things like:
- when you last visited your local library
- if it has been some time since you went, why?
- What was your overall experience?
- What were the staff like?
- Did you have access to a catalogue of books available in the library
in tape/braille/large print/electronic?
- Was this catalogue accessible to you?
- If you do regularly borrow books, in what format are they?
- What was the quality of these books like?
- The range of genres?
- Were you charged for any part of their Services?
- How to do feel that as a taxpayer, you are not getting an equivalent
service? Ie. Free library services?
- What is your experience of other organisations providing books to b &
ps people, and how do they compare to Talking Books?
And anything else you can think of...
Thanks and look forward to hearing from you.
Regards
Trudy
mailto:trudy.salandiak@xxxxxxxxxxx
Trudy Salandiak
Marketing Communications Officer
Library & Production Services
Royal National Institute of the Blind
T: 01733 375340
www.rnib.org.uk/libraryservices
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