Monday 14 July 2008

How many collections?

Recently I discovered online, the Conductive Education Resource Library catalogue of the Jockey Club Marion Fang Conductive Learning Centre, SAHK .
http://jcmfclc.spastic.org.hk/Library_Catalog.doc
This lists a substantial amount of material on CE and associated subjects held by SAHK (previously the Spastics Association of Hong Kong), some of which -I think! - is new to me. It is hard to be sure as details of some items are basic, but I hope to follow up on these. Up until then I was only aware of two libraries (at the Peto Institute and the Foundation for Conductive Education) with collections of a reasonable size. The published literature of CE is small (but growing) and unpublished items far outweigh these in number, therefore it is very difficult to keep track,obtain copies and raise awareness of ALL that there is.
Are there any other collections whose contents lists are so freely available? Are there any other organisations or even individuals starting or hoping to start a library?The two libraries I mention are not so accessible because one catalogue is up on a Hungarian language website http://libsrv.peto.hu/F and the other, the National Library of Conductive Education catalogue is not available on the internet. Perhaps there could be a way of working together to share what we have.
I hope to post here lists of new additions to the National Library regularly to keep people up to date.

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