National Library for Persons with Disabilities Offers Three Types of Alternative Digital Collections

The National Library for the Disabled (Director Won Jong-pil) announced that it will provide digital collection services starting from the 29th through its website (www.nld.go.kr). The service includes alternative materials for curriculum-linked books, alternative materials for the hearing impaired, and policy materials for people with disabilities.

The digital collection is an information service that selects specific types of materials or topics of broad public interest and makes information easily and conveniently accessible in a digital environment. For visually and hearing-impaired students who experience difficulties with online learning due to COVID-19, reference books included in textbooks are produced as electronic braille books, digital audio books, and sign language video books, then organized by grade and subject for provision.

Alternative materials for the hearing impaired include various reference books and sign language video books introducing books for the hearing impaired, which are organized by topic and genre and provided as a service. Policy materials for people with disabilities comprehensively collect research reports and policy reports published by government ministries, public institutions, and others targeting people with disabilities, and will be curated by topic before being offered.

A library official stated, “We expect that the alternative material services for reference books included in this year’s textbooks and various thematic digital collection services will improve information accessibility for people with disabilities, and we will continue to build interesting and useful content going forward.”

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