Seminar and network meeting
International seminar for librarians
The section "Libraries for People with Special Needs" of the International Federation of Library Associations, IFLA, is meeting in Bangkok and is exchanging ideas with librarians from Thailand.
The seminar is aimed at Thai librarians and decision-makers who would like to exchange ideas with the IFLA section and share their own best practices.
The section works for people who have no or only limited access to library services due to their current life situation and/or environmental barriers. These include people in hospitals, in prison, in nursing homes or care facilities, people with physical disabilities, people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind, people with dyslexia, people with dementia, people with intellectual disabilities, and people who are homeless.
Various members of the section and various Thai librarians present their work:
Dr. Janer Garner (Professor at the Charles Sturt University from Australia), Lisa Krolak (Chief Librarian at the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning from Germany), Gerhard Peschers (Head of the Association for Prison Libraries from Germany), Mohd Faizal Hamzah (Vice President of the Malaysian Library Association and Senior Librarian University of Malaya), Misako Nomura (Board Member and Chief Secretariat of Assistive Technology Development Organization (ATDO) from Japan), Dolores Carungui (Chief Librarian National Library of the Philippines), Samira Zahra (Head of Information Services and Library Advisory Goethe-Institut Thailand), Nathee Chitsawang (Thailand Institute of Justice), Archaree Srisunakhua (Director of Central Women Prison Bangkok), Dr. Tassana Hanpol (President of Thailand Library Association) and Nawarat Panyangam (The director of the National Library of Thailand).