Tell us Emily (3/6): Collaboration and Partnership: Working Together To Advance Accessibility

 

Tell us Emily (3/6): Collaboration and Partnership: Working Together To Advance Accessibility
https://youtu.be/saKW5oI-HG4

In terms of what Publishers and Distributors around the world Need to know from our perspective, is that we are dealing with constraints. We don't always have access to the kinds of funds necessary to purchase materials. So we need our publishing Partners to recognize that and to work with us, both on providing low-cost materials, especially for those of us working in libraries that are under Source or in parts of the world that are under resource and also to be our allies in increasing resource budget and making sure that other stakeholders understand the value. That all of us provide

It's also important when we're developing collections to think about the accessibility of what we purchase. It isn't enough to just buy an information resource and put it online. We also need to have ways that we also need to make sure that our materials can be accessed by the people who need them. And that means thinking about people with problems reading print, people with visual impairments or people who have difficulty hearing we need to understand the sort of particular issues that some people struggle with as they're trying to access information. Because at the end of the day, that's what we care about. We care about building and access to information for everyone. And that means being inclusive in our Collections and making sure that we're acquiring materials that everyone can read.