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Victorian Library Development Grants 1995-96
Braille and Talking Book Library. Produce a significant collection
of Chinese audio books, which will also be available for sale
to public libraries
- Braille and Talking Book Library. Produce a significant collection
of Vietnamese audio books, which will also be available for sale
to public libraries
- Dandenong Valley. Continuation of project funded last year
to further develop and expand existing, heavily used Chinese
and Vietnamese collections
- Frankston. Project to service migrants in their efforts to
learn the English language both by providing suitable adult-level
reading and listening materials in English and by offering additional
languages and services in the main languages of migrant groups
- Geelong. To increase the scope and quality of the library's
LOTE resources by the provision of a non-book collection
- Glenelg. Provide computer-assisted learning to the Koori population
of Heywood, enabling users to interact with key literacy topics
such as 'Language and the Law', and 'Good Food for Diabetics'
- Hobsons Bay. Provision of funding to continue project using
CAVAL to catalogue public library LOTE materials at a cost not
greater than cataloguing English languages books and making LOTE
materials more widely available
- Kingston. To provide a video-cassette collection to at least
five groups in the City of Kingston
- Maribyrnong. Library to develop its role as a major collection
source for the Chinese and Vietnamese-speaking communities in
Melbourne
- Yarra/Melbourne. Working with local communities to introduce
family literacy programs for people with LOTE background into
their libraries
- Melton. To improve literacy and English language learning
sources within Melton
- Moreland. Proposal to provide word processing in non-Roman
scripts for both the use of the library and for community use
- Moreland. Moreland, the Working Group on Multicultural Library
Services and the State Library of Victoria will cooperate to produce
a directory of Victorian Public Library Holdings in LOTE materials.
PLS Annual Survey statistics will be utilised
- Port Phillip. Improve access for users of LOTE materials by
researching and developing a LOTE gateways to the World Wide Web
as well as improving the LOTE non-fiction collection
- RVIB Talking Book Library. Improve library service to people
with a print disability in Victoria whose first language is Italian.
Audio material will be accessible through RVIB or through local
public libraries
- Whitehorse. Acquire relevant computer equipment to provide
Chinese language catalogue for Chinese-speaking library members:
catalogue Chinese materials, and also add them to the CJK national
network
- Yarra Plenty. Expand junior collection in LOTE (Italian, Vietnamese,
Chinese) and conduct a program of bi-lingual storylines.
- Boroondara. To improve the level and quality of library services
provided for vision-impaired users in Boroondara to increase level
of audio book and large print stock, and to broaden the range
of literature available in these formats
- Boroondara. Enhance level of cataloguing data in local databases
for large print and audio book materials, and to facilitate the
implementation of a computerised profile matching software
- Corangamite. Acquire range of subtitled videos to be available
through mobile services of the Regional Library to assist library
users with disabilities in remote areas
- Echuca. Joint application with Mildura, Swan Hill and Gannawarra
libraries. Proposal to develop a collection of specially selected
audio books that would be cooperatively purchased and shared between
the four libraries
- Geelong. To conduct a 'disability awareness course' for branch
staff which enhances their knowledge, confidence and skills in
the delivery of services to people with disabilities
- Geelong. Establish collection of captioned videos for the
particular use of hearing impaired customers
- Geelong. To provide a Superprint 400 telephone typewriter
with printer and answering machine at the library
- Glenelg. To provide equal access across the region to the
visually impaired and people with literacy problems, through the
purchase of appropriate equipment for the Portland and Casterton
Branch Libraries
- Glenelg. To offer non-functioning readers the opportunity
to participate and become familiar with library services and print
media through access to trial comic collections at the Hamilton
and Portland branches
- Kingston. Develop the non-fiction large print and non-fiction
audio book collections for people with visual disabilities
- Yarra/Melbourne. Through establishment of appropriate equipment,
provide library users with print disabilities electronic access
to the collections of TBL and BTBL via Vicnet (linking into PLANET
scheme)
- Mildura. Develop collection of captioned videos for people
with hearing disabilities which could be sent to other public
libraries
- Moreland. Provision of large print public access catalogue
(OPAC) and word processing at the Glenroy Library in order to
provide greater access to library collections and word processing
for people with visual disabilities
- Moreland. Extend existing system of audio-scanning for visually
impaired clients to include Italian and Spanish languages, tape-recording,
PC and word processing and a braille typewriter
- RVIB Talking Book Library. Develop staff training programs
which would enhance public library services to people with visual
impairments by increasing the understanding within the public
library system of the needs of this group
- Stonningston. Purchase of approximately 100 captioned videos
for use by people with hearing disabilities
- Whitehorse. Installation of personal computers with speech
synthesisers to increase access for people with visual disabilities
to the library's CD-ROM database and catalogue. Also attach Braille
Embosser to PC
- Yarra Plenty. Development of special needs collection to meet
educational and recreational needs of disadvantaged adults and
people with disabilities within the Thomastown community
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Last updated 2 September 1996