Ambika Mondal & Daibaki Mondal
Volume-XIV, Issue-III, April 2026
Volume-XIV, Issue-III, April 2026 | ||
Received: 19.04.2026 | Accepted: 24.04.2026 | |||
Published Online: 30.04.2026 | Page No: | |||
DOI: 10.64031/pratidhwanitheecho.vol.14.issue.03W. | ||||
Accessible Library: A
Window to Studying Literature for Persons with Visual Disabilities
Ambika
Mondal,
Independent Research Scholar, West Bengal, India
Daibaki Mondal,
Asst. Prof., Dept. of History,
Rampurhat College, West Bengal, India | |
A vast repository of miscellaneous
books, the library functions as the institutional example of pure literary knowledge.
According to the Right to Equality a fundamental right consecrated in the Constitution
of independent India, every citizen has an equal right to pursue knowledge from
this establishment. Besides, S.R. Ranganathan, the father of Library Science, accentuated
in his "Five Laws of Library Science" that libraries must be
accessible to all readers.
In spite of these principles, people with visual disabilities inevitably
come across certain difficulties when accessing knowledge within these places.
The two legislative acts passed in 1995 and 2016 concerning people with
disabilities explicitly advocate for education and the making of accessible
learning environs.
This research paper studies the legitimate contexts established in
post-independence India to make the landscape of library education further
inclusive. Moreover, it deeds to examine through precise examples the extent to
which the field of library science has become truly accessible to people with
seeing disabilities in light of these statutory provisions.
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