Disability Champions Forum
Is a grassroots community of practice form for all information professionals which was
launched in November 2015 in affiliation with ALISS
We aim to offer librarians, Special Collections, information professionals from all sectors an informal place to
contact, meet and exchange and exchange ideas. Disability is defined broadly to include
neurodiversity conditions, mental health issues, physical or intellectual impairment. We
believe that library users should not be ‘disabled’ by technical, environmental or social
conditions in libraries and urge all those who support this to join us to improve access for
Disability
The latest edition of my Disability, Higher Education Teaching and Learning Bibliography updated frequently with new key references
You can view the new Zotero library where I am collecting references here
Meeting March 2024
Wellbeing in our Libraries – Sarah Todd University of Aberdeen
Meeting January 2024.
Disability history month recap – Aliss held a show case to mark disability history month
There is also a padlet of suggested resources These included materials suggested by a forum of PhD researchers
LSE Library Buddying Café- Jo Taplin Green spoke about the aims and organisation of this event. See the slides
Guidelines
Meeting November 2023
Sofia Mavrogen, University of Bedfordshire. Reflected on a Library resource session for neurodiverse students held at university of Bedfordshire at start of term. See the slides .
Tina Webber from Swansea University gave a quick overview ofthe history and current role of their great Transcription Service. See the slides here
Meeting September 2023
Lara Marshall RNIB gave a presentation on her role and the type of support the RNIB can offer libraries and archives. See the slides
Meeting July 2023
How Alexander from TextBOX gave an update on Aspire and other services. See the slides.
Beverley Delaney from OU summarised the work of the OU on improving audio visual presentations to make them more accessible. This was based on the slides prepared by Manda Laine
alissnet.com 