Change the Life of Someone Who Is Blind With a Visit to your Local Library CNIB Foundation partners with CULC/CBUC to bring Phone It Forward to public library system TORONTO – March 12, 2019 – CNIB Foundation has partnered with CULC/CBUC (Canadian Urban Libraries Council / Conseil des Bibliothèques Urbaines du Canada) to bring their […]
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Centre for Equitable Library Access Launches
For Immediate Release Launch of new library service provides accessible books to over three million Canadians with print disabilities May 29, 2014 – Victoria, BC: The Centre for Equitable Library Access (CELAlibrary.ca) officially launched its new national service which provides accessible library services and materials to Canadians with print disabilities. The announcement was made at […]
Member Update Briefing
The Steering Committee and Governing Board would like CULC/CBUC member libraries to participate in a Briefing Update on the new Not-for-Profit to serve Canadians with print disabilities through Canada’s public libraries. The briefing will focus on the following: Partnerships with CNIB and others Funding Models and timing Service Levels and timelines Government Relations and jurisdictions […]
Making Good on the Promise: A Public Library Led National Solution for Accessible Format Materials
The Canadian Urban Libraries Council / Conseil des Bibliothèques Urbaines du Canada has been working since Spring 2012 on the creation of a new national public library organization – focussed solely on the creation, collection, delivery and preservation of both digital and physical alternate format accessible materials. New Organization Formed On September 1, 2013 Industry […]
Communique on Alternative Format Delivery Project
A Communique from the CULC/CBUC Working Group on Alternative Formats. It is titled Canadian Public Library Accessible Formats Initiative, but this is not a presumed title for the project. We are hoping to name the new service when it is closer to the final iteration. There seems to be considerable misunderstanding within the broader library and […]
CULC/CBUC supports CNIB Digital Hub Proposal
THAT CULC/CBUC reaffirm their May 2012 motion that the CNIB’s Digital Hub proposal is a reasonable production and delivery model for accessible format materials and that CULC/CBUC is committed to working with CNIB and other stakeholders to further refine the operational, financial, and governance model for the Digital Hub. Moved by Greg Hayton, Cambridge Public […]
CULC/CBUC offers support to the Digital HUB proposal for Canadians with Print Disabilities
OTTAWA — Members of the Canadian Urban Libraries Council took the opportunity to ask Guest John Rafferty (CEO and President of the CNIB) many questions, express views and to determine the intent of the Digital HUB proposal that CNIB has offered. In a wide-ranging discussion that was based in the role of the public library […]
Items upcoming on the CULC/CBUC Spring Meeting Agenda
The Executive is focussing the Spring 2012 discussions on fewer items that are linked through the theme of eContent. Some of the items the national public library group will be addressing include: the work of the eBook Task Force and the proposed RFI they will be introducing next week US Publishing expert Brian O’Leary (Magellan […]
CNIB distributes business plan for National Digital HUB
Following up on the presentation to CULC/CBUC last November in Surrey the National Board of CNIB has supported the National Digital HUB business plan. It appears all members of CULC/CBUC have received a copy. Follow-up from CNIB is planned this Spring. The CULC/CBUC Executive will look at it and notify members what is needed from […]