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Let’s Talk about Disability: Disability Justice in Engineering Librarianship

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Conference

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Baltimore , Maryland

Publication Date

June 25, 2023

Start Date

June 25, 2023

End Date

June 28, 2023

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 1: Engineering Librarianship

Tagged Division

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD)

Tagged Topic

Diversity

Page Count

27

DOI

10.18260/1-2--43456

Permanent URL

https://peer.asee.org/43456

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266

Paper Authors

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Elizabeth C. Novosel University of Colorado Boulder

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Elizabeth Novosel is the Computer Science, Mathematics, & Social Sciences librarian at CU Boulder, where she has previously supported a wide variety of subject areas, including science, engineering, and social sciences.

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Abstract

Despite efforts to improve DEI on college campuses, bias and discrimination still exist in higher education settings, particularly for disabled students, who are often forgotten or less emphasized in DEI efforts. In some disciplinary areas, such as in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields, disabled students are more likely to experience discrimination due to a reportedly more competitive and less flexible and supportive environment. Academic librarians and other educators can make a difference for these students by contributing to a more inclusive campus environment for disabled people in STEM by implementing universally accessible and inclusive pedagogy, resources, services, and spaces. Such efforts are more effective when they incorporate a disability justice perspective, which provides an intersectional framework to understand how individuals experience disability. This paper will present a disability justice-informed perspective in hopes of allowing librarians who work with disabled STEM student to gain a more nuanced understanding of ableism and the many barriers disabled people encounter in STEM fields as well as more broadly in higher education.

Novosel, E. C. (2023, June), Let’s Talk about Disability: Disability Justice in Engineering Librarianship Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--43456

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