APLA2018

The Centre for Equitable Library Access or CELA, is a national, not-for-profit organization providing accessible materials to Canadians with print disabilities through public libraries in the Atlantic Provinces. Driven by a commitment to innovation and responsiveness to patron and member library needs, CELA is reinventing its user interfaces with an open source solution and migrating its catalogue to a new platform developed in partnership with Benetech, Inc. Benetech is a nonprofit with a focus on developing software for social good and the producer of Bookshare. Bookshare offers the largest collection of accessible materials in the world and is offered to patrons for free through public libraries in the Atlantic Provinces. The Bookshare and CELA collections will be combined, searchable and available for borrowing in one catalogue. This and other improvements will be discussed by representatives from CELA and Bookshare. The presentation will be in English with French translation available during the session.