Dagupan City Library is PHL’s 2nd best
PWD FRIENDLY
THE Dagupan City Library is the nation’s second best in the 2014 Search for Outstanding Libraries with Services for People with Disabilities (PWDs) which was given during the celebration of the 24th Library and Information Services (LIS) Month on November 4 at the National Library of the Philippines (NLP) auditorium in Manila.
The city library was cited for having 107 volumes of Braille books donated by Area 1 Vocational Rehabilitation Center (A1VRC); for allocating 30 percent of its budget to the purchase of materials/books for readers with disabilities; and for its reading activities with PWDs in the barangays with the aid of the city’s mobile library.
The awarding bodies also took note of the city library’s action of converting a portion of the first floor of the city library at the People’s Astrodome as PWDs and Senior Citizen corner and provided with a ramp and a wide door for easy access and mobility of PWDs who come to the city library.
Meneses said the city library is also equipped with its own photocopying machine exclusively to photocopy research materials of PWDs.
The city enacted City Ordinance No. 2014 series of 2014 also known as “Creating the Persons with Disability Affairs Office (PDAO) in the City of Dagupan and providing funds thereof” including other benefits like the issuance of IDs and purchase booklets to PWDs; the hiring of physical therapist, occupational therapist, psychologist and physiotherapist to readily attend to the needs of the PWDs at the Stimulation and Therapeutic Activity Center (STAC) at the City Social Welfare and Development Office.
The award was received by City Librarian Rufina S. Meneses, Assistant City Librarian Corazon C. Langit and Librarian 1 Marilyn P. Caguioa.
The search was a joint project of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts-National Committee on Library and Information Services (NCCA-NCLIS), the Philippine Librarians Association, Incorporated (PLAI) and the NLP.
The Dagupan City Library also placed second in 2009 in the Search for Outstanding City Libraries in the Philippines. (CIO)
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