Table of contents - Special Issue: Disability issues and libraries: a Scottish perspective
Guest Editors: Nicholas Joint
Disability issues and libraries: a Scottish perspective
Nicholas JointTo give an overview of recent advances in thinking on disability issues in libraries, with a particular emphasis on Scottish initiatives.
Person first, disability second: disability awareness training in libraries
Sandra CharlesTo look at disability awareness training from a practitioner's point of view, taking into account personal experience of organising training in an academic library, the impact of…
Auditing SCURL Special Needs Group members
Sheila WhyteTo describe how the SCURL Special Needs Group carried out an audit of individual member's facilities and services, creating a tool designed to be useful in benchmarking minimum…
Customers with disabilities: the academic library response
Chris PinderThe article surveys the general academic library response within the UK to disability legislation and the growing numbers of students declaring disabilities entering higher…
Glasgow City Council: library, information and learning services for disabled people in Glasgow
Marion BeatonAn outline of the public library service offered to disabled people in Glasgow, Scotland.
The web, accessibility, and inclusion: networked democracy in the United Kingdom
Jake WallisTo highlight and offer guidance on good practice in web accessibility within the context of the United Kingdom government's agendas of social inclusion, widening access to…
Studying with special needs: some personal narratives
Karen E. McAulayThe aim of this article is to interview three academic library users with different special needs, one of whom is a current undergraduate, whilst the others graduated two and five…