aserl-accessibilityig Mailing List: Celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day with new accessibility educational resources!

[Beth Ashmore (beashmor]

In honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) on May 16th, the
ASERL Accessibility Interest Group would like to share a number of new
resources you can use to grow your accessibility skills and make your
libraries more accessible.

The ASERL Accessibility Interest Group is excited to share our Accessible
Hiring Conversation Guide
<https://www.aserl.org/programs/accessibility/accessible-hiring-conversation-guide/>,
a resource to help library workers have conversations about how to make the
hiring process accessible for candidates and search committee members. The
advice and ideas provided in the guide are not hard-and-fast rules that
guarantee an accessible hiring practice. Instead, they are a place to start
talking about how to make hiring as inviting and accessible as possible at
your library. This guide was created by the ASERL Accessibility Working
Group on Library Spaces which is a small group led by the ASERL
Accessibility Interest Group. If you have ideas or suggestions, get in
touch with us via this form <https://forms.gle/mcG59EZjEdLRNbWV6>. We would
love to hear your feedback and how you are making hiring accessible at your
library.

As you likely know, ASERL is a member of the Library Accessibility Alliance
(LAA) <https://www.libraryaccessibility.org/>, an organization of library
consortia founded to promote “equitable access to library services and
electronic resources” (Library Accessibility Alliance, “Who We Are.”). We
are excited to share a learning resource from our LAA colleagues at the Big
Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) <https://btaa.org/>. The Cultivating
Belonging: Library Accessibility Essentials Online Course
<https://btaalib.catalog.instructure.com/courses/self-paced-btaa-cultivating-belonging>
is a self-paced online course designed to provide “basic accessibility
knowledge to begin navigating the University resources for better support
of patrons and each other” (Self-Paced BTAA Cultivating Belonging: Library
Accessibility Essentials, “Learning Outcomes”). The Canvas course was
developed for BTAA library staff but the BTAA has graciously opened it up
so ASERL library staff can also take the course for free.

Finally, check out our 3 steps you can take to make your library more
accessible blog post from GAAD last year
<https://www.aserl.org/2023/05/three-steps-to-make-your-library-more-accessible/>
for more information on how to jumpstart your libraries accessibility
journey.

-- 
Beth Ashmore
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Associate Head, Acquisitions and Discovery (Serials)
North Carolina State University Libraries
beashmor [at] ncsu.edu
919-513-3354
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