Designing for Diversity in Your Library’s Communications
Motivations, ideas, and inspiration for supporting diverse populations and creating community with care.
Being intentional and inclusive in the design of your library’s communications, in both physical and digital library spaces, can support and enrich your library’s accessibility, diversity, and equity. The graphics, language, or format selected for communications provide an opportunity to create more welcoming spaces which reflect and represent your community’s diversity, including—but not limited to—race, gender, or neurodiversity. Explore the importance of inclusion and representation in design and take a fresh look at how your library’s signage, marketing materials, and online communication can contribute to a sense of belonging for all.
Presented by: Mollie Peuler, eLearning Librarian, Appalachian State University (NC)
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Related Resources and Links
Neurodiversity
- Accessibility according to actual people with disabilities
- Supplemental Guidance to WCAG 2
- How Can Literary Spaces Support Neurodivergent Readers and Writers? by Jess deCourcy Hinds, 2023
- WebJunction webinar, Serving the Underserved: Children with Disabilities at Your Library
Image Collections
- Disabled And Here Collection
- Age-positive image library
- Nappy Photo Collection
- The Gender Spectrum Collection
On Language
On Critical Design
- Equitable But Not Diverse: Universal Design for Learning is Not Enough, by Amanda Roth and Dominique Turnbow, 2021
- Inclusive Design and Design Justice: Strategies to Shape Our Classes and Communities, by Amy Collier, 2020
Date
13 July 2023
Time
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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