Czech library programs and their participants with special needs

The bachelor thesis describes and defines cultural and educational programs in libraries and the possibilities of their adaptation or opening to groups of people with special needs. Its main goal is to explore Czech libraries' opportunities to open events to these people and suggests ways of solving the problematic situations specified. The theoretical part describes Czech libraries, their history, legislation that regulates their services, and the programs they organize. It also characterizes services to people with special needs, which is subsequently applied to the library environment. The last chapter discusses cultural and educational programs in Danish libraries, which opens up new possibilities for transforming these services in libraries in the Czech Republic. The research part evaluates the results of qualitative research carried out with the help of semi-structured interviews with respondents from ten selected regional libraries. The research was executed in regional libraries because of their wider financial, personnel, and spatial possibilities and the influence they have on smaller libraries in the regions through regional functions. Although the libraries are on the same level, each is defined by a unique approach to its mission. Thanks to the diversity of the sample, a large amount..