Effect Information Access and Equity to Students with Special Needs in Universities Libraries for Sustainable Development in Nigeria
Keywords:
Information, Accessibility, Equity, Disability, SocializationAbstract
Accessibility is hitherto the incumbent of the technical conceptualization of Equity in regard to students with disability. Hence the concept does not require sympathy but empathy on exploring equal chances to the information regardless of gender or disabilities. Equity in this paper is elaborately means providing any means for information access to students with disabilities and a carefully monitoring for its sustainability. Students with disabilities are those who in any means cannot be educated without special setting, in special classroom, by special teacher/inclusiveness, with special materials as a result of their impairment or disability either physically or orthopedically, mentally, psychologically, emotionally and behaviorally. Among the challenges that prompted to carry out this study is the lack of information access students with disabilities encountering especially in library for their research and practice due the unconcern and consideration given to those students when thinking of libraries construction, poor socialization by staffs of library, insufficient of references textbooks specifically for the client and many more among others. However, this paper is categorically set to
explore on the challenges and a way forward. In view of this, the concept of Accessibility, relevant information, equity and students with disabilities are dwells extensively.
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