I'm curious if my grassroots coalition, Librarian Unite For Equal Rights would perhaps work for this? I have been working with Abby Howard who works at ASU, Arizona State University in disability related students services on LUFER for a couple months now. She helps students navigate the accommodations process and she is a newer advisor on our team. Although her work with LUFER is volunteer work and not officially related to ASU. We are also taking about doing a book drive for psychiatric hospitals since they don't have enough materials for recreational use by inpatients. None of the advisors are academic librarians though so this probably won't work for the criteria you're looking for but figured I'd mention it because we are doing A LOT of digital advocacy and social justice work online, all relating to diversity and inclusion. I'm also working with 2 librarians, Kayla L Martin-Grant who is the Continuing Education Coordinator at Mississippi Library Commission and Kristin Lansdown. We are a very diverse bunch. I also have 2 other admins who work in the marketing dept at public llibraries. I also have the #NormalizeDisclosure campaign I've been doing to promote awareness on disability in the library workforce. I'm working on the next round of disclosure photos right now! I'm also planning to use these GravityView plugins we got free from the owner to make forms online so people can submit their disclosure information and then come back and edit it after I've approved it. It's really exciting stuff, at least I think it is lol. :) We have over 9k followers on FB too and my plan is to raise money to turn this grassroots coalition into an actual nonprofit organization. I got the site at librariansunite.org up and running this year finally on MLK Day. :D I'd LOVE to be a speaker about all the exciting things I've been doing with the help of some amazing librarians and library workers across the U.S. I even launched a podcast and Rebecca McCorkindale of the "Libraries Are For Everyone" campaign was the fist guest. She is a huge supporters of our coalition. :)
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Sarah Prokop
Executive Director and Founder
Librarians Unite for Equal Rights
sarah.prokop@librariansunite.orgCell: 630-745-7990
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Original Message:
Sent: Mar 05, 2021 04:51 PM
From: April Sheppard
Subject: Looking for Suggestions for Program Speakers
All –
The ACRL Digital Scholarship Section is sponsoring a program on digital scholarship projects that have used community or campus partnerships to amplify underrepresented voices. This presentation is co-sponsored by SRRT and will take place at ALA Annual.
They are currently building their program and looking for someone in academic libraries who is working with community members to do a digital project related in some way to social justice. If you know anyone who might be interested, please let me know and I will pass the names on. And yes, it can be you!
April Sheppard
SRRT Coordinator
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Dean B. Ellis Library | Assistant Library Director
P.O. Box 2040 | State University, AR 72467
Phone 870.972.2766 | Fax 870.972.5706
asheppard@astate.edu | http://www.astate.edu/a/library