Links the roles of libraries and professional library staffs to the newly emerging consciousness of the “library rights” of blind and print-handicapped persons. Focuses on several programs whose effects will continue beyond the International Year of Disabled Persons, and discusses ways in which library professionals could become more aware of and responsive to the needs of print-handicapped people.
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