Sugamya Pustakalaya: Enabling Libraries to Meet the Needs of Persons Who Cannot Read Normal Print

Speaker: Shri Dipendra Manocha, Director of the Regional Resource Centre, New Delhi, DAISY for All and Developing Countries Coordinator and Head of Training and Tech support with the Daisy Consortium

 

Shri Manocha will speak on India’s first and largest collection of accessible books which is a collaborative effort of several organisations to end the book famine faced by people with print disabilities. He will also address the issues related to accessibility of resources for visually impaired people

 

In addition, Dr. Ramesh Gaur, University Librarian, Jawaharlal Nehru University and a Representative from Delhi University Library System will speak on the facilities and services given by their respective libraries to visually impaired students