A Touch Of - Regional Training Days
NLB and Opening the Book working with the Branching Out librarians in the project group provided training to public library staff in how to use A Touch Of and A Touching Experience as a launch for promoting a full range of library services to VIP readers.
There have been 10 regional training days covering:
- awareness of visual impairment
- implications of the Disability Discrimination Act
- knowledge of access technology
- working with voluntary societies for the blind
- knowledge of different service providers, the National Union Catalogue of Alternative Formats, the NLB's accessible OPAC
- reader development initiatives for VIP readers such as NLB's website, Feeling Your Way and Forager book choice as well as the Touch Of materials themselves
Some of the content of the training days will be available on the website soon so that it can be cascaded in all library authorities. Contact us if you would like to be notified when this is available.
