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LIS Vocational Education at the Margins: A Personal View Inclusion, Accessibility, and Support for Neurodiverse Learners in Australia Library and information science (LIS) education in Australia is at a pivotal point, challenged to create more inclusive, accessible pathways for a diverse student body. While initiatives have emerg...

LIS Vocational Education at the Margins: A Personal View Inclusion, Accessibility, and Support for Neurodiverse Learners in Australia 🔽
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#Library
#Librarian
#Research
#Neurodivergent
#HiddenDisability
#Dyslexia
#Autism
#ADHD
#Dyspraxia
#vocational
#education

📝Conceptualising Belonging: How LIS Education Can Cultivate a Truly Inclusive Future for Neurodivergent and Disabled Information Professionals 🔽

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#Librarian 📚
#LibraryWorker
#KIM
#Neurodiversity
#Dyslexia
#Autism
#ADHD
#Disability
#Dyspraxia
#Dyscalculia
#CripLib

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'Enhancing Inclusive Bibliographic Data: A Study of Disability Terminology in the Subject Headings of the National Library of Indonesia' 🔽

repository.ifla.org/items/3cba20...

#Library
#Disability
#Cataloging
#Cataloguing
#CripLib

Book cover for Reek by Alastair Chisholm, illustrated by George Caltsoudas showing a young person with a helmet and rocket books swinging through a futuristic Edinburgh via a rope.

Book cover for Wonderfully Wired Brains by Louise Gooding showing a young person with short hair and glasses wearing a green hoodie. Around their head are a myriad of different things from animals to basketballs, pencils, paint brushes and games controllers.

Book cover for Ink Girls by Marieke Nijkamp and Sylvia Bi showing three girls with papers in their hand as if passing our leaflets, hovering over a medieval European style city.

Book cover for The Horse Dreamer by Holly Surplice showing a sketch style drawing of a girl riding a galloping horse.

It’s #DyslexiaAwarenessWeek in Scotland this week and in the rest of the UK next week. As a dyslexic reader myself I wanted to use #KidsBooksFriday this week to celebrate brilliant, accessible and super-readable texts of all kinds.
#UKKidLit #KidLitUK #KidLit

🥳 Happy National Medical Librarians Month! 

October is here to officially celebrate the unsung heroes of healthcare. This year’s theme says it best: Better Information. Better Decisions. 

Learn how to join the celebration by visiting MLANET: https://bit.ly/4o2eFcp

#medlibs #healthinformation

We'll pass thanks

📝Conceptualising Belonging: How LIS Education Can Cultivate a Truly Inclusive Future for Neurodivergent and Disabled Information Professionals 🔽

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#Librarian 📚
#LibraryWorker
#KIM
#Neurodiversity
#Dyslexia
#Autism
#ADHD
#Disability
#Dyspraxia
#Dyscalculia
#CripLib

Hypermobile folks trying to get comfy:

Autism and neurodiversity in the workplace: A scoping review of key trends, employer roles, interventions and supports - Benjamin Wen, Henriette van Rensburg, Shirley O’Neill, Tony Attwood, 2024 BACKGROUND: Autistic adults continue to experience high rates of unemployment and underemployment. OBJECTIVE: A scoping review was undertaken to: a) synthesise...

'Autism and neurodiversity in the workplace: A scoping review of key trends, employer roles, interventions and supports'
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#Research
#Neurodivergent
#Neurodiversity
#Employment
#Workplace
#HiddenDisability
#Autism

CILIP LGBTQ+ NETWORK logo

Our CILIP LGBTQ+ Network seeks a new Chair. You'll act as leading officer, informing the decisions made to raise awareness & advise Library, Knowledge & Information workers on LGBTQ+ subjects. Role open to those identifying as LGBTQ+ or Queer. informationprofessionaljobs.com/jobs/chair-u...

Listening to Neurodiverse Voices in the Workplace

'Listening to Neurodiverse Voices in the Workplace'
A qualitative study to gain insight into the experiences of #neurodivergent individuals and the barriers faced at work ⬇️

kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/pu...

#Employment
#Dyslexia
#Autism
#ADHD
#AuDHD
#Dysgraphia
#Dyspraxia
#Dyscalculia
#OCD

Save theatre, libraryes, parkes, indie bookestores, museums, cinema, local restaurantes, coffee shoppes, meetinge places, qualitye public educacioun, communitye marketes, lyve musique, weirde places, goode places. All the thinges that corporate logic ys so eager to distorte and remove.

Graphic titled “Creating Safe Spaces for Autistic People: Everyday Practices for Individuals & Organisations.” It features three speakers: a smiling person with glasses against a graffiti wall with the logo “Laura Hellfeld” Scott Neilson with the logo “Autistically Scott,” and a Helen Edgar with glasses and long red hair with the logo “Thriving Autistic.” Along the bottom are images of resources, including: Creating Safe Spaces for Autistic People book cover, Therapy Passport for Autistic Adults, Workplace Disclosure Guide, and Therapy Self-Reflection Guide.

Delighted to be joining Neurokindred's Thriving Autistically Well-Being Event 6th October 2025
FREE TICKETS
neurokindred.com/creating-saf...

Creating Safe Spaces for Autistic People: Everyday Practices for Individuals & Organisations with @laurahellfeld.bsky.social & @autisticallyscott.bsky.social

Great read📝'What Does It Mean to Be Information Literate for an Autistic Librarian in the Academic Library Workplace?' from our very own @nlisn.bsky.social secretary @ahaire.bsky.social ⬇️
eric.ed.gov?id=EJ1473988

#HE
#Academia
#LibraryWorker
#Neurodivergent
#Neurodiversity
#Employment
#Autism

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Read this -> Moeller, C. M. (2025). “Begging to be heard”: The Professional Exclusion and Marginalization of Neurodivergent Librarians (Doctoral dissertation, University of Washington).
by @christinemmoe.bsky.social

Ooh what a lovely picture for Monday morning!

Reacting, Retreating, Regulating, and Reconnecting: How Autistic Adults in the United Kingdom Use Time Alone for Well-Being | Autism in Adulthood Background: Firsthand accounts by autistic people describe a need for regular time alone. However, there is little in the literature that explores (1) why time alone is desired, (2) how that time is spent, or (3) where that time is spent. This article describes a neurodiversity-informed, qualitative study that demonstrates the importance and purpose of “alone-time” for autistic adults. Methods: We interviewed 16 autistic adults living in the United Kingdom about how and where they spent their “alone-time” and the benefits experienced from this time. We conducted the interviews online, some using a video link, and some using a synchronously accessed text-based document, according to the participants’ preferences. Results: We used Reflexive Thematic Analysis with the interview data to generate four qualitative themes as follows: (1) reacting to social and sensory overwhelm; (2) retreating from social and sensory overwhelm; (3) regulating, recovering, and recharging; and (4) ready to reconnect with others. Conclusions: These themes highlight a need for balancing social activities and spaces with time and space alone and the benefits of creating or protecting spaces, which encourage recovery from overwhelm.

Reacting, Retreating, Regulating, and Reconnecting: How Autistic Adults in the United Kingdom Use Time Alone for Well-Being
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www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10....

#Neurodivergent
#Neurodiversity
#Autism

Next week:

Here it is! Thanks to all involved. #AcademicSky

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ooh thank you!!

NAG Webinar Week 17-21 November 2025 Call for submissions Open to all Image of an open laptop with NAG logo on screen https://nag.org.uk/webinar-week-2025/

Got that Friday feeling? Why not take ten minutes out of the day-job to consider NAG Webinar Week 2025!
Have you got a recent library project you could share?
Running 17-21 November; deadline for submissions 10th October.
nag.org.uk/webinar-week...
No NAG membership required - open to everyone.

A woman speaks with another woman in a library. Behind them a young man works on a laptop.

This year marks 175 years since the Public Libraries Act.

We want to create an archive for the next 175 years. Between 6 and 12 October, we want you to photograph what your #Library service looks like today.

Find out more:

www.librariesconnected.org.uk/projects/lib...

ooh is it time to share our library pins and patches? 📕📚📖
#Librarian
#Library

🙃 oof, I had an academic tell me once they didn't use the library as everything was online... they hadn't joined the dots to figure out who was ensuring subs and access were working.

Ableist ivory towers: a narrative review informing about the lived experiences of neurodivergent staff in contemporary higher education Neurodivergence is currently underrepresented among staff in higher education. Acknowledging such underrepresentation, this narrative review critically explores the experiences of neurodivergent ac...

Ableist ivory towers: a narrative review informing about the lived experiences of neurodivergent staff in contemporary higher education
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www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

#Neurodivergent
#Neurodiversity
#Employment
#Workplace
#HiddenDisability
#CripLib
#HE
#Academia

Reacting, Retreating, Regulating, and Reconnecting: How Autistic Adults in the United Kingdom Use Time Alone for Well-Being | Autism in Adulthood Background: Firsthand accounts by autistic people describe a need for regular time alone. However, there is little in the literature that explores (1) why time alone is desired, (2) how that time is spent, or (3) where that time is spent. This article describes a neurodiversity-informed, qualitative study that demonstrates the importance and purpose of “alone-time” for autistic adults. Methods: We interviewed 16 autistic adults living in the United Kingdom about how and where they spent their “alone-time” and the benefits experienced from this time. We conducted the interviews online, some using a video link, and some using a synchronously accessed text-based document, according to the participants’ preferences. Results: We used Reflexive Thematic Analysis with the interview data to generate four qualitative themes as follows: (1) reacting to social and sensory overwhelm; (2) retreating from social and sensory overwhelm; (3) regulating, recovering, and recharging; and (4) ready to reconnect with others. Conclusions: These themes highlight a need for balancing social activities and spaces with time and space alone and the benefits of creating or protecting spaces, which encourage recovery from overwhelm.

Reacting, Retreating, Regulating, and Reconnecting: How Autistic Adults in the United Kingdom Use Time Alone for Well-Being
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www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10....

#Neurodivergent
#Neurodiversity
#Autism

NLISN AGM Please give us feedback as we are presenting our work

Thrilled to share our Annual Report and strategic plan: zenodo.org/records/1691...

We have a Google form where you can give us feedback on the report and our work: forms.gle/n7LmENEwKdLF...

Touch-type Read and Spell (TTRS) Touch-type Read and Spell (TTRS) offers a comprehensive program for typing, reading, and spelling, suitable for individuals and families.

Resource feature on our website: Touch-type Read and Spell (TTRS) A comprehensive program for typing, reading, and spelling, suitable for individuals and families, including those with dyslexia schoolreadinglist.co.uk/resources/to... #teachersofx

Neurodivergent Library and Information Staff Network Supporting Neurodivergent Library Staff in the UK

And that sums up the first NLISN AGM! I may be biased, but @jofitz.bsky.social and @playbrarian.uk are brilliant humans. Thank you to all the members of the committee, and the network, who are helping us neurodivergent folks know we're not alone in this big old library world! @nlisn.bsky.social