On the October 20th, students, professors, staff and officials from UPS and the government attended a meeting to learn more about the services provided by Tiflobiblioteca (library for visually impaired people ) located in Block B of Campus Giron Quito.

This space was created in 2005 with the purpose of providing a service for people with visual disabilities so that they could have access to academic materials. In the beginning, this project worked through an institutional agreement between the Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas (ESPE) and the Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, thanks to Rita Villagomez ( + ) and Major Luis Cueva's initiative. 

The Community Involvement department, the Library staff and the Student Services department, organized an inclusive event whose aim was to sensitize the university community on space services, which is attended by about 130 people each month. 

Anthropologist José Juncosa , Vice President of UPS-Quito , chaired the event accompanied by  Mauricio Suarez Tifobiblioteca Coordinator , Cristian Castaneda, assistant . Francisco Guevara , Provincial Director of the Technical Secretariat for inclusive management with Disabilities , Miriam Gallegos , Director of the Master of Special Education with a major in Education of People with Visual Impairment , Lola Vazquez , Director of the community involvement department.

Suarez thanked participants for their attendance and the UPS Vice President highlighted the fact that the university is based on the inclusion of different people who contribute with society through their epistemologies, that way it creates academic thinking. 

Gallegos said that the concept of inclusion goes beyond interculturality, genre and religion, since it is an intregral process that covers different points of view. Guevara, from SETEDIS, congratulated the university for providing spaces to discuss inclusion topics. 

Castañeda explained the services of the library such as: training on the use of the Braille system, technical help designed with Pedagogy and Psychology students to support areas such as neurophysiology, psychophysiological , pharmacology, Perquins machine that helps to write a text better especially when learning English.

In digitization, Suarez said that the Tifobiblioteca has about 20,000 digital texts in Word, PDF and RTF, JAWS screen readers , NVA , technological equipment such as Victor Reader in Spanish and English , MP3 processing tools , magnifiers , book scanning.