First Session of Library Services to People with Special Needs:
13:45-15:45, Sunday 17th August 2014

“The UN Disability Rights Convention：
What It Means for Persons with Disabilities and Library Services Worldwide”

Program

• Welcome Speech (5 minutes)
  Barbara Lison  (IFLA Governing Board Member)

• Introduction  (5 minutes)
  Veronica L C Stevenson-Moudamane (Chair of IFLA/LSN)
  

• Keynote Speech
  “The CRPD and its impact for library services - a perspective from the CRPD Committee” (30 minutes)
  Professor Theresia Degener (Professor of Law and Disability Studies, Protestant University of Applied Studies, Bochum Germany, Vice Chairperson of the UN-Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities)   

• “Implementing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; Roles of Libraries and Librarians in Japan” (20 minutes)
  Hiroshi Kawamura (Technical Advisor for The Nippon Lighthouse, Tokyo, Japan)

• “Accessible and inclusive libraries: some examples of best practices in France” (20 minutes)
  Marie-Noëlle Andissac, Librarian manager in charge of the Accessibility Policy of the Public Library of Toulouse, France

• “The role of libraries in the implementation of the Marrakech Treaty for persons with a print disability” (20 minutes)
  Francisco J. Martínez Calvo, Technical Advisor for ONCE (National Organization of Spanish Blind Persons), Madrid, Spain

• Discussion including QA (20 minutes)