Library Progress (International)
  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 38
  • Issue: 1

Library Services for the People with Visual Impairment in Higher Education: A Review of Literature

1Assistant Librarian, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400088, India. E-mail: anand.dodamani@tiss.edu

2Librarian, Govt. First Grade College for Women, Jamakhandi, Dist. Bagalkot, Karnataka, 582110, India. E-mail: sukanyarm123@gmail.com

*Corresponding Author: Anand Dodamani, Assistant Librarian, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, V.N. Purav Marg, Deonar, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400088. E-mail: anand.dodamani@tiss.edu

Online published on 27 July, 2018.

Abstract

In the present paper, an attempt is made to critically review, assess, encapsulate, compare, contrast and correlate various scholarly publications and other relevant sources of information published on the library services for the people with visual impairment in Higher Education with special reference to India.

Keywords

Library Services for the Blind, Library and Visually Challenged, Assistive Technology in Libraries, Disabled in Higher Education