Professional paper
Library services for persons with special needs and disabilities as part of the National strategy of the unique policy for the disadvantaged from 2003 to 2006
Čelić-Tica Veronika
; Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Gabriel Dunja-Marija
orcid.org/0000-0002-7913-2596
; Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
As there still seems to be no systematic approach in Croatia to the issues of library
services for persons with special needs, the paper presents the preliminary results of the research conducted within the project «Library services for the persons with special needs
–determining the problem of reading and writing causing the changes in the behaviour of
juvenile attending the young offenders institutions and penal institutions in Croatia». The
project was initiated in 2004 by the Committee for Library Services for Persons with Special Needs and Disabilities (Crotian Library Association) in co-operation with Croatian
Dyslexia Association, Croatian Institute for Librarianship (National and University Library) and IFLA Section for Libraries Serving Disadvantaged Persons. Even though it had
been tested and verified on a smaller group of persons with difficulties in reading and writing and with behaviour disorders, the methods and activities applied in this Project should
be viewed as an extention of the National strategy of the unique policy for the disabled,
the main goal of which is the improvement of the quality of library services for persons
with special needs and disabilities in public, school and special libraries such as libraries
of the young offenders institutions and penal institutions.
Keywords
library services for persons with special needs and disabilities; public libraries; school libraries; libraries of the young offenders institutions and penal institutions; National strategy of the unique policy for the disadvantaged; dyslexia,; bibliotherapy; logo-bibliotherapy
Hrčak ID:
165709
URI
Publication date:
15.3.2006.
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