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- Description
- Table of Contents
- About the authors
Approximately 26% of American adults are classified as disabled, meaning many academic librarians live with at least one disability. Much of the literature surrounding disability in libraries, however, focuses on the user rather than the library worker.
Navigating Disability in the Academic Library Workplace collects ways that the library can support its workers with disabilities and encourage them to succeed. It’s a guide for librarians with disabilities on supporting and advocating for themselves in the workplace, but also a resource for able-bodied and neurotypical managers and workers to learn how to be allies.
Chapters examine identities, intersections, The Americans with Disabilities Act, accommodations, advocacy, and collective care practices. Authors generously share their own stories and experiences and offer their own definitions of ableism, disability, intersectionality, and other relevant terms to help capture the diversity and magnitude of identities held by people with disabilities. Navigating Disability in the Academic Library Workplace offers a chorus of voices with different perspectives and provides ideas and resources for individuals with disabilities, supervisors, coworkers, and the profession.
Introduction
Samantha Peter and Paula Martin
Chapter 1. Disability Identity
Jessica Schomberg
Chapter 2. On Being the Wrong Kind of Different: Where Queer and Disabled Intersect
Shanna Hollich
Chapter 3. The Americans with Disabilities Act and Academic Library Workers
Katelyn Quirin Manwiller
Chapter 4. Accommodating Pregnancy in Academic Libraries: Tips for Librarians and Supervisors
Samantha Peter and Katelyn Quirin Manwiller
Chapter 5. It’s not Just ADA: A Collaborative Approach to Disability Management in the Library Profession
Kathryn Tallman and Allan Van Hoye
Chapter 6. Hiring and Disability: Recommendations for Librarians, Hiring Managers, and Committees
Paula Martin and Samantha Peter
Chapter 7. Accommodations, the Academic Library, and Delayed Diagnoses
Alice Bennett
Chapter 8. Neurodiversifying Academic Libraries: Inclusive Foundations
Payton D. Cook and Elizabeth A. Pineo
Chapter 9. The Odd One Out: Encouraging Autistic Employee Acceptance and Accommodation in the Academic Library
Michelle Green
Chapter 10. Self Ad-bro-cacy and Institutional Support: Helping Each Other to Help Ourselves
D. Wharton and Sam Nesbitt Zelick
Chapter 11. Exploring Crip Time, Self-Care, and Collective Care Practices in the Academic Library
Brea McQueen, Natalia Kapacinskas, and Anna Boutin-Cooper
Chapter 12. Leading While Disabled
Elizabeth Anne Teaff and K.T. Vaughan
About the Editors and Authors