From archive to access: co-designing an inclusive library space with Heart n Soul

Описание: 0:00: Intro
01:01: Everyone is welcome at our library. You don't have to read, why not listen to music instead?
01:55: Sensory equipment available at our library
02:15:Wellcome Collection isn't a normal library, we have comics and accounts of people's own experiences of health
02:54: What you can do with a library card?
04:16: Why you should come to our library

Heart n Soul is a charity that believes in the power and talents of people with learning disabilities and autistic people. They work with people to make great art with imagination, love and trust. And in May 2023, Wellcome Collection acquired Heart n Soul’s archive.

This set in motion a long-term co-design project between Heart n Soul researchers and Wellcome Collection's Library Experience and Engagement team.

The teams' shared goal? To see and hear more disabled and learning and disabled people in libraries and archives.

But if Heart n Soul’s archive was going to be made available in the library, then it was important learning disabled people feel welcome and comfortable. This video tells you what we put in place to ensure that....

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