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Golob, Marija: Library of the Institution for Blind and Weak-sighted Youth in Ljubljana, its development and activities; Knjižnica, Ljubljana, 32(1988), no.3-4 The library for the blind was founded in 1919, in the same year as the first Slovene institution (primary school) for the blind. Hie books of Slovene classics and foreign literature for the young were rewritten into the writing for the blind by pro­ fessor Minka Skaberne and seme other volunteer copiers. The base for the educational work with the blind is the typhlopedagogic literature Care for the blind by M. Skaberne and German authors. After the World War II., the library was enlarged with the school books, needed by the highly organized school for the blind, lower gymnasium. After 1967, UNICTT has donated a prin­ ting office and school books in bigger print for the children with damaged sight. The librarian together with teachers chooses the professional literature (psychological, typhlopedagogical and other), enlar­ ges the library, especially with the books for young and pictu- re-books, creates a new type of a picture-book with the adequate text in the writing for the blind, and enlarges the library for the blind with literary writings. The library with a sound studio, the talking book on tapes (frcm 1957 on), with other tapes and videotapes, offers more successful education for the children with damaged sight. The purpose of the educational process in the institution is to form a self-governing, independent and universal person. This aim is supported by the library.