Ellen Forget

The pronoun labeler, which was by far the most useful labeler on the site, was deleted by its creator. But thanks to @ripperoni.com there’s a new one available. I highly recommend it. It’s a great way to share your pronouns or see someone else’s pronouns at a glance.

bsky.app/profile/pron...

Nothing academic. I follow lots of disability advocates who use and educate about service animals, and I know some Canadian resources for service animals. I haven't come across any academic work about it. I can try to look for something though!

Photo exhibition for visually impaired launches in Dublin A unique photography exhibition, 'World Unseen', which has been travelling across the world since 2024, is being hosted by the Photo Museum Ireland in Dublin's Temple Bar.

Visual art media can be made accessible and tactile. The link here describes a photography exhibit that was made for folks with visual impairments, including tactile versions of the photographs with braille descriptions.

www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

A photo of bookshelves full of textbooks. Text above reads: Work with DAO. Text below reads: Heritage Project Archive Consultant. disabilityarts.online/archive-consultant

We are looking for an Archive Consultant to support its landmark heritage project, ‘Cripping Culture: a Journey into Disability Arts Heritage’.

Closing - 02 Mar
Location - Remote
££ - £5.4K Fee

disabilityarts.online/opportunity-...

Yes, I love this! That's exactly what I tried to do with my DH+Lib data physicalization piece. And the 3D print I posted the other day. Would love to do more of this type of work.

Has anyone studied how researchers and academics use library catalogues? I'm struggling to find any literature on researcher (not student) information needs and information seeking behavior. Any leads?

My focus is rare books/archives/special collections, but I'm looking broadly right now.

Call for Papers: Special Issue on The Future of Diamond Open Access: Possibilities, Perils, and Pathways Abstract submission deadline: March 23rd 2026 In recent years, Diamond Open Access (OA) has risen to the fore in the ongoing exploration of which knowledge production models are both ideal …

New Call for Papers alert! Consider submitting to our forthcoming special issue on The Future of Diamond Open Access: Possibilities, Perils, and Pathways. CfP available here: journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/news/239/ Abstracts due March 23rd 2026. #DiamondOA

I'm so ingrained in #DHMakes that when I saw a museum had a catalogue listing for "the patchwork quilt embossed in moon type" I thought it was a quilt with tactile moon characters added to it. But no, it's a book in moon type. Which makes more sense, but I'm a little disappointed it isn't a quilt!

The title page of volume one of The Gospel of John embossed in moon type.

The same moon title page, but a screenshot of a 3D scan of the page that is blue with scanner guide markers placed randomly on the page.

The same 3D scan but now white with the extra details around the page deleted and cleaned up as a 3D model.

The same title page in moon, but now a 3D printed physical object printed with purple filament. There are printed supports on the front, right side, and base still attached.

From rare book (physical) to 3D scan (digital) to cleaned-up 3D model (digital) to 3D printed object (physical).

This was a really fun process to think through texture and materiality of a tactile book object. This was a test, and I learned a lot from the process. More to come later this year!

Friends with a new, renewed, or amplified interest in the Spanish language and Latin America, consider checking out the work your colleagues/neighbors in departments of Spanish/Romance Languages/Modern Languages/etc--they're likely in the corner of an old campus building 1/

The title page of volume one of The Gospel of John embossed in moon type.

The same moon title page, but a screenshot of a 3D scan of the page that is blue with scanner guide markers placed randomly on the page.

The same 3D scan but now white with the extra details around the page deleted and cleaned up as a 3D model.

The same title page in moon, but now a 3D printed physical object printed with purple filament. There are printed supports on the front, right side, and base still attached.

From rare book (physical) to 3D scan (digital) to cleaned-up 3D model (digital) to 3D printed object (physical).

This was a really fun process to think through texture and materiality of a tactile book object. This was a test, and I learned a lot from the process. More to come later this year!

People get prickly about these requests bc they see them as individual critiques but they're really efforts to set norms and build culture around sharing information, which feels very meaningful and worthwhile to me in this moment.

I'm curious why they only used those LLMs in their test and not OCR platforms that are already widely in use in academia? Are they just hoping to skip that initial training phase? I have so many thoughts about this...

I don't know who needs to hear this (me), but a reminder: save your work as you go, because software can crash at any time. 🙃

Blind and low vision fans to experience Super Bowl 60 in new way Some blind and low vision fans will get to use haptic tablets at Super Bowl 60. It allows them to feel the ball as it moves around the field.

Some blind and low vision fans will get to use haptic tablets at Super Bowl 60. It allows them to feel the ball as it moves around the field. n.pr/49Z7YDT

We are so pleased to announce the recipients of our 2026 Awards! Many thanks to the jurors, our Awards team, and the SHARP members whose membership fees support this work. (If you'd like to support these awards in the future, consider joining us! sharpweb.org/membership/)

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I'm looking for funding suggestions (non-academic grants, companies willing to make donations, etc.) to fill a budget shortfall for a research project about game industry incubators, accelerators, and mentorship programs.

I know the game sector is on fire now, but any suggestions are appreciated!🔥💰

Want to know more about accessible reading? Join NNELS, CELA and BANQ for the Accessible Reading Symposium on March 11 and 12, 2026. This free two-day virtual event brings together stakeholders across the Canadian accessible reading landscape. Learn more here: celalibrary.ca/accessible-r...

Some people think being Deaf is a weakness, that learning Sign Language & becoming part of Deaf culture is somehow a surrender. It’s not. It’s a revelation, a declaration of freedom. My Deaf community is a wondrous galaxy that gives me strength & love & imagination, & I’m grateful to be part of it.🤟🏼

Thank you! 😊

1.1 Introduction - Accessibility in Data Visualization - Open Visualization Academy

You can catch my full, open course on accessibility in visualization here:
openvisualizationacademy.org/courses/acce...

Thank you!

If you're disabled (broadly defined) and BIPOC or QTBIPOC and have a book coming out in the next year, please drop the link in the comments.

Award announcement for the 25th-anniversary fellowship from SHARP. This year we've awarded two fellowships in recognition of the funding pressures on scholars. The recipients are: Ellen Forget, Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta, for their project "A History of Tactile Writing and Reading." And Harrison Mmerenu, PhD candidate at Texas Tech University, for his project "The Farafina Era: Literacy in Public, Value and Agency in Postcolonial Nigeria Publishing."

The @sharpweb.org email just went out, so I can post about it now! SHARP awarded me the very generous 25th-Anniversary Fellowship to support research travel for my project "A History of Tactile Writing and Reading." I'm so grateful to SHARP, the awards committee, and the book history community.

Thank you!

Thank you so much! I'm so grateful to SHARP and the bookish community for supporting my work.

Thank you! ☺️

There aren't a lot of people working at the intersection of book history and disability studies, so to receive this kind of support is incredible and I'm so grateful for it. SHARP does amazing things, and I'm very happy to be part of this wonderful community of scholars.

Award announcement for the 25th-anniversary fellowship from SHARP. This year we've awarded two fellowships in recognition of the funding pressures on scholars. The recipients are: Ellen Forget, Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta, for their project "A History of Tactile Writing and Reading." And Harrison Mmerenu, PhD candidate at Texas Tech University, for his project "The Farafina Era: Literacy in Public, Value and Agency in Postcolonial Nigeria Publishing."

The @sharpweb.org email just went out, so I can post about it now! SHARP awarded me the very generous 25th-Anniversary Fellowship to support research travel for my project "A History of Tactile Writing and Reading." I'm so grateful to SHARP, the awards committee, and the book history community.

My mobility aid is a cane, so I was able to walk over this—painfully, but I could. Someone who uses a wheelchair or a walker would not have been able to get around or over this.