Access & Equity
Access & Equity are broad areas for libraries and they encompass many issues. This includes, among so much more, making sure your facility is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act, serving patrons on the autism spectrum, building a diverse collection, and creating a welcoming environment that represents your entire community no matter ethnicity, heritage, gender identity or sexual orientation.
Self-paced courses and webinar recordings on this topic are freely available in the WebJunction Course Catalog.
Most Recently Added
December 13, Stronger Together: Collective Impact and Climate Action Programming
Publish Date: News / 13 December 2023
Part of a series, this webinar with the Sustainable Libraries Initiative will feature practitioners having a collective impact through community collaborations.
October 3, Living Our Values Out Loud: Programs that Walk the Talk
Publish Date: News / 28 November 2023
Part of a series, this webinar with the Sustainable Libraries Initiative will feature practitioners who have found ways to design, implement, and evaluate programs using frameworks that better represent their library’s values.
October 3, Climate Justice
Publish Date: News / 3 October 2023
Part of a series, this webinar with the Sustainable Libraries Initiative will explore the disproportional impacts of climate change on systematically oppressed communities.
July 18, Sustainability 101
Publish Date: News / 18 July 2023
Part of a series, this webinar with the Sustainable Libraries Initiative will introduce characteristics of a sustainable library.
August 16, Climate Action Planning (Part 1): An Introduction
Publish Date: News / 18 July 2023
Part of a series, this webinar with the Sustainable Libraries Initiative will introduce characteristics of a sustainable library.
July 13, Designing for Diversity in Your Library’s Communications
Publish Date: News / 13 July 2023
Motivations, ideas, and inspiration for supporting diverse populations and creating community with care.
June 6, Promoting Voter and Civic Engagement at Your Library
Publish Date: News / 6 June 2023
Join this webinar to learn about the types of resources and services your library can provide to support voter registration and civic engagement.
A Delicious Library Collaboration
Publish Date: News / 23 May 2023
Running a restaurant is no easy task. And while libraries do a lot of things amazingly well, being a restaurant operator on top of all that is a tricky proposition. But when has a challenge ever stopped a library? This is certainly the case for Toled...
May 18, Library Safety and Security: A Holistic Approach
Publish Date: News / 18 May 2023
This session will present a holistic approach for creating safe environments, through strong community relationships, inclusive policies, and empowered staff.
Learn Digital Collections Stewardship with On-Demand Courses
Publish Date: News / 16 May 2023
OCLC's WebJunction, in partnership with Washington State University’s Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation, has created a series of free online courses developed for staff at tribal archives, libraries, museums (TALMs), and small public librar...
Community engagement
Where do you go for inspiration? Invigorate your community engagement efforts with advice from library leaders.