Access to Information for Visually Impaired Users of University Libraries in Tamil Nadu

Abstract

Information is always an indispensable part of every activity. The routine of an average person includes activities that are related to personal care and improvement, family-related tasks and work schedule or livelihood tasks to carry out all these tasks, a person unknowingly or knowingly uses ‘information’. It is the continuous flow of the crucial resource of information, which keeps alive business and industry, education, leisure, travel and communications, national and international affairs, and the entire society, as we know it today. Hence information has been described as the “lifeblood of society. The present study is to investigate, how the visually impaired users of university library access the information, their attitude towards sources available especially for them, and major barriers to access the information.