Centering Lived Experience: Library Organizations, Disability, and Equity

Abstract

Academic Library Workers in Conversation is a C&RL News series focused on elevating the everyday conversations of library professionals. The wisdom of the watercooler has long been heralded, but this series hopes to go further by minimizing barriers to traditional publishing with an accessible format. Each of the topics in the series were proposed by the authors and they were given space to explore. This issue’s conversation discusses the need to push our associations and organizations toward greater inclusion of people with disabilities. To do that, it is essential to consistently hear the voices and lived experiences of our colleagues with disabilities—Dustin Fife, series editor