Throughout the decades of 1950?1970 the movements in favor of civil rights brought the concept and identity of disability in the spotlight, like those of national (e.g. immigrants) or racial identity (e.g. black people). People with disabilities have begun to draw attention as a serious social problem since 1960. Although people with disabilities constitute a minority group with the largest number of members and most needs, they are not given much attention by libraries. The history of library services for people with disabilities is only recent and relatively short. Additionally, the relationship between library and people with disabilities is problematic. As a result, people with disabilities are under?represented in the library domain and libraries, themselves, make up “terra incognita” and an inaccessible area to them due to architectural, physical, economic and any kind of obstacles. Even though the importance of information, as a social and economic benefit, has been obvious in the rapidly growing Information Society, libraries keep focusing on the able?bodied users. As a result, people with disabilities depend on themselves and charities for something so essential such as reading and information. The libraries’ attitude is affected by the way that society has dealt people with disabilities and its ignorance for their physical and emotional needs. Furthermore, this attitude is due to lack of resources for adapted furniture and producing material in alternative formats, insufficient education and cooperation between the involved agencies, the late introduction of information technologies in libraries and the already developed attitudes and behaviour in the library field. Even though the last decade there has been involvement, legislation of catalytic acts in the disability domain, diversity of users and rise in research activity with regard to libraries and people with disabilities, the field is closely linked to several shortages, weaknesses and hindrances without showing significant improvement in practical matters. A general confirmation, which the present research encountered, is that evident interest of bibliography, library services, research projects, etc, is focused more one people with visual impairments and less on other groups of people with disabilities. This happens because libraries focus on books and reading, which demand the visual sense and visual impairment poses the major accessibility challenge. The current dissertation focuses on the library services for people with disabilities and aims at establishing an innovative model library, which will constitute a complete and scientifically accurate guide, in the form of a model putting solutions into practice and shaping libraries which wish to serve sufficiently their users with disabilities. The prime motive for this research was the fact that it is a global issue of social concern and the main goal of an information professional is the provision of all people’s free access to information regardless of disability. The present research elaborates directly through the information professional’s eye and not that of the technician. It focuses on library services, without investigating copyright issues for people with disabilities or the procedures for converting print or electronic material in accessible formats. Furthermore, it does not intend to analyse the disabilities in detail or adaptive technologies in technical depth.