Digital library services for visually impaired students: A study of the University of Karachi
The aim of this study was to identify the digital library services for visually impaired (VI) students, studying in the University of Karachi. The VI students have the same information needs as that of sighted people but digital information services are not available for them. The VI students have b...
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University of the Punjab, Department of Information Management
2016-05-01
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| description | The aim of this study was to identify the digital library services for visually impaired (VI) students, studying in the University of Karachi. The VI students have the same information needs as that of sighted people but digital information services are not available for them. The VI students have been facing problems in searching information on the internet because they can not use computer and internet without the support of a helper or some specific software or hardware. The researchers collected data by interviewing VI students. The findings show that the VI students had a keen interest in using digital information through digital libraries because they were aware of the importance and usefulness of digital information and wanted to get benefit of that in their education. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2329eaa0b5df4bd680755f0a702ffffc2023-02-14T10:11:21ZengUniversity of the Punjab, Department of Information ManagementPakistan Journal of Information Management & Libraries2409-74622016-05-0112010.47657/pjim&l.v12i0.823414Digital library services for visually impaired students: A study of the University of KarachiMuhammad Waseem Zia0Farhat Fatima1Department of Library and Information Science, University of Karachi, KarachiPakistan Institute of Labor Education and Research (PILER), KarachiThe aim of this study was to identify the digital library services for visually impaired (VI) students, studying in the University of Karachi. The VI students have the same information needs as that of sighted people but digital information services are not available for them. The VI students have been facing problems in searching information on the internet because they can not use computer and internet without the support of a helper or some specific software or hardware. The researchers collected data by interviewing VI students. The findings show that the VI students had a keen interest in using digital information through digital libraries because they were aware of the importance and usefulness of digital information and wanted to get benefit of that in their education.http://journals.pu.edu.pk/journals/index.php/pjiml/article/view/823visually impaired personsdigital librariesstudentsuniversity of karachi |
| spellingShingle | Muhammad Waseem Zia Farhat Fatima Digital library services for visually impaired students: A study of the University of Karachi Pakistan Journal of Information Management & Libraries visually impaired persons digital libraries students university of karachi |
| title | Digital library services for visually impaired students: A study of the University of Karachi |
| title_full | Digital library services for visually impaired students: A study of the University of Karachi |
| title_fullStr | Digital library services for visually impaired students: A study of the University of Karachi |
| title_full_unstemmed | Digital library services for visually impaired students: A study of the University of Karachi |
| title_short | Digital library services for visually impaired students: A study of the University of Karachi |
| title_sort | digital library services for visually impaired students a study of the university of karachi |
| topic | visually impaired persons digital libraries students university of karachi |
| url | http://journals.pu.edu.pk/journals/index.php/pjiml/article/view/823 |
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