ICT Facilities and Services at M. K. Tata Memorial Learning Centre forVisually Challenged

Abstract

Attempts have been made to highlight the State-of-the-Art ICT facilities and services made available at M.K. Tata Memorial Learning Resource Centre which was established in 2008 at Sir Dorabji Tata Memorial Library, TISS to keep pace with time and advances in information technology. The centre is comprising of more than 20 workstations with latest configurations along with 10 HP scanners. It provides access to Internet, Dspace Archive, Braille printer, instructional learning materials and ICT based information services. Special software like JAWS, Kurzweil, Magic Magnification, Zoom- Ex Instant Reader, Win Braille, OBR, Spell Well, Talking Teaching Type Pro have been procured in the centre. Special equipments like Prisma for low vision, SARA for instant text reading are also available in the centre.