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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED238431 AUTHOR: Cylke, Frank Kurt, Ed.; And Others
TITLE: Approved Recommendations on Working Out National
Standards of Library Service for the Blind.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1983
NOTE: 12 p.
ABSTRACT: Standards are briefly outlined for four general
areas. Administrative areas addressed are policies and
procedures, legal basis, planning reports--statistical and
narrative, budget, funding, personnel (personnel policies
and procedures, positions and responsibilities, staff size,
training and performance, job description, affirmative
action, training and instruction, and volunteers),
relationships with other libraries and agencies (sharing
information, coordination of services, liaison activities
and public education, directories of other agencies, and
contacts with library schools), and physical facilities (the
interior). Resource development areas include selection of
materials, copyright, annotated bibliographies, titles
produced, collection maintenance, quality control, technical
and qualitative criteria, reproduction of titles and copies
(cassette, braille, and large type), and collection
maintenance. User service standards address user needs,
temporary service, responsibility to users, registration,
circulation (lending policies and system design),
interlibrary loan, referral services, equipment
(demonstration equipment and services), communication with
users, reader advisory service, and measuring user
satisfaction. Finally, the area of public education and
information covers active liaison, programs, newsletters,
and the reference collection. A glossary is provided. (LMM)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Glossaries-; Library-Planning; National
Programs; Objectives-; Outreach-Programs; Physical
Disabilities; Special-Libraries
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Blindness-; *Library-Administration;
*Library-Materials; *Library-Services; *Library-Standards
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