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Charge: To support current and former residents to network, share their expertise, gain national leadership and service experience, and prepare for transitioning to post-residency positions through: a) advancing resident education and residents’ professional success through inter-collegiate collaboration; b) creating programming and resources that center residents; c) advocating for current residents through a liaison relationship with the ACRL Diversity Alliance; d) providing opportunities to engage in research on residencies; and e) centralizing information regarding program availability.
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Call for Articles: Disabilities in Libraries & Information Studies

  • 1.  Call for Articles: Disabilities in Libraries & Information Studies

    Posted Sep 22, 2025 07:00 AM

    DisLIS Open for Article Submissions

    Disabilities in Libraries & Information Studies (DisLIS) is now accepting articles for peer-reviewed, open access publication. This includes original research articles, review articles, case studies, theory articles, and notes from the field. We recommend authors use this template to structure their articles. We will review submissions using this rubricAcademic articles are peer reviewed using an open, collaborative review process. Articles will be published on a rolling basis.


    Article Submission Link

    About DisLIS

    DisLIS is an open access, multimedia journal run by information professionals who work in various types of information-oriented jobs. All members of the Editorial Board either have disabilities or have extensive experience with disability-centered work.


    Our publishing focus is to center the experience of disability within information work in a variety of settings including but not limited to K-12 schools; LIS programs; public, academic, special, or other types of libraries or archives; focusing on the experiences of library or archive workers or users, or people who work with libraries in other ways. Works published may take a variety of forms, including book reviews, peer-reviewed scholarly articles or case studies, poetry, and recorded interviews.


    Contact the Editorial Board if you have questions: DisLisJournal@googlegroups.com


    DisLIS website is available at https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/dislis/

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    Shanna Hollich, MLIS
    Pronouns: they/them

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    Have a wonderful day and week. Stay safe and well.

    Take care, 
    Twanna 

    Twanna Hodge, MLIS (she, her, hers)
    PhD Candidate | College of Information
    University of Maryland, College Park
    2013 Spectrum Scholar