How to reach library users who cannot reach libraries?
Abstract The article discusses the ways of getting library activities closer to the individuals or groups of users who have difficulties to or cannot visit the library themselves. The author presents the services offered by the Maribor Public Library and discusses how one of the basic human rights...
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| Language: | English |
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Slovenian Library Association & University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)
2002-10-01
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| Series: | Knjižnica |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.uni-lj.si/knjiznica/article/view/14027 |
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The article discusses the ways of getting library activities closer to the individuals or groups of users who have difficulties to or cannot visit the library themselves. The author presents the services offered by the Maribor Public Library and discusses how one of the basic human rights – the right to the access of cultural goods, knowledge and information - is exercised also through library activities. By enabling access to library material and information, public libraries help to fulfill basic human rights and thus raise the quality of living in a social environment. The following forms of library activities are presented in the article: »distance library« – borrowing books at home, in hospital, station for the bibliobus for disabled users, »mobile collections« in the institutions where users, due to their age or illness, have difficulties in accessing or even cannot reach library materials and information by themselves. |
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| ISSN: | 0023-2424 1581-7903 |