Abstract
Visually impaired people in India are estimated at 62 million; of these, 54 million persons have low vision, and 8 million have completely no vision. Government of India has been giving a lot emphasis on the improvement of the education, discusses the need of Digital Library for blind users, policies so that the persons with disability (Divyangjans) can live their life in a privileged manner as any other citizen of India. In this study, an effort was made to analyse efforts made by University of Delhi in providing information services to the visually impaired users as well as to know about the constraints faced by visually impaired users in acquiring knowledge in academic libraries, The study aims to provide an insight to the academic libraries to improve information services to the visually impaired users and discusses the need of Digital Library for them. It will be helpful for promoting web based and digital services for special users.
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