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Teaching + Training

Marketing + Outreach

Neurodiversity and Libraries: Supporting Patrons in Your Physical and Digital Spaces

Monday, July 22, 2024

3:30pm – 4:30pm CDT

Room: Grand Ballroom A (East Tower Gold Level)

Moderator/Coordinator(s)

Geraldine Kalim (she/her/hers)

Reference & Instructional Services Librarian
University of Baltimore Law Library
Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Slides (PDF)

Speaker(s)

Mari Cheney (she/her/hers)

Research Librarian
Perkins Coie LLP
Seattle, Washington, United States
Annalee Hickman Pierson (she/her/hers)

Head of Reference and Faculty Services
BYU Law Library
Provo, Utah, United States
Julia M. Pluta (she/her/hers)

Faculty Services and Collection Development Librarian
University of Missouri-Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri, United States

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Has accessibility become a buzzword? Possibly an amorphous, all-encompassing notion that means everything and nothing? In this program, participants will develop a critical lens they can use to assess accessibility in their physical and digital spaces, their outreach materials and programs, and their understanding of and interactions with neurodiverse library patrons. The program will focus on improving accessibility in law libraries for patrons, including students, who identify as neurodivergent. Given the demonstrated rate of underdiagnosis of neurodivergence, the program will be guided by principles of universal design.

Target Audience:

Law librarians of all experience levels, responsibility areas, and library types will benefit from this workshop. Specifically, librarians who teach or train, who create social media or other print or digital content for marketing and outreach, who contribute to physical or digital collection development, or who are patron-facing in any role.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will critique areas in their law library’s physical spaces (focusing on study space and service points) and digital spaces (focusing on web presence and virtual services) in which greater accessibility for neurodiverse patrons is achievable.
Participants will evaluate outreach materials and programs to improve their accessibility for neurodiverse patrons.
Participants will navigate real-life examples of neurodivergent needs and successful solutions.