People often ask me what I do, and I tend to respond with “providing books in accessible formats to print disabled”, but most people seem to simply accept that as another job or project description. Some people do ask me to explain further, but often, I don’t think we (and that includes myself, and other people involved in the project) truly realize the impact and importance of the project. Continue reading “Imagine Living Without Books Part 1: The Importance of Supporting Print Disabled Readers”
Tag: reflection
Better than Christmas Morning: Finding Your Motivation
This was originally posted on The Pastry Box on October 1. Unfortunately, for some reason it was not tweeted about, so I didn’t see that it had been published. Anyway, here it is re-published. Enjoy. Continue reading “Better than Christmas Morning: Finding Your Motivation”
Musing: Playing Around with the NNELS Logo
It’s come up recently that we might consider revising our logo. I saw a coworker playing around with it and thought I’d give it a try. Continue reading “Musing: Playing Around with the NNELS Logo”
Open Everything in Libraries
I started writing this blog post quite a while ago as you can tell from the intro, but I had forgotten about it and decided to recently finish it.
Intro
Listening to the talks at Code4LibBC last week, I began to think about open data and collections, but then starting to also think about the role of libraries and the idea that it’s a public space.
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Reflection: A Year as an Accessibility Librarian
I had meant to write this up earlier, but I have been overwhelmed with starting a new job and trying to wrangle a new space at home for my home office (which is still actually very much in progress). I also meant to post this after I wrote it 2 weeks ago, but had wanted to add some pictures and totally forgot about it. Continue reading “Reflection: A Year as an Accessibility Librarian”