Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Call for Panelists: Who's Missing from EDI?: Barriers for Librarians with Invisible Disabilities (ACRL 2021)

Academic library and archives workers are invited to submit interest inparticipating in an accepted panel at ACRL 2021 titled "Who's Missing from EDI?: Barriers for Librarians with Invisible Disabilities." This session will be a semi-live panel sessions with 45 minutes of recorded content and 15 minutes of live Q+A. Panelists will need to register for the conference to be on the panel.

The panelists will talk about their experiences living with invisible or nonapparent disabilities and/or illnesses and ways we as a profession can improve accessibility, specifically how can we include disability in EDI work. It will ideally represent a variety of experiences and perspectives that include BIPOC librarians, physical and mental illnesses, and different career stages. The panel will be moderated by Katelyn Quirin Manwiller, the primary researcher on a study of over 250 MLIS-holders working in academic institutions and living with invisible illness(es) and/or disabilities, and will be informed by the results of that survey.

For full session description and to submit interest in being a panelist, please see this Google Form: https://t.co/AIVTfybqjf?amp=1.

Please feel free to email with questions or concerns,

Thank you,

Katelyn Quirin Manwiller, MLIS