Type of Presentation
Poster Session
Conference Strand
Diversity and Inclusion
Target Audience
Higher Education
Second Target Audience
Other
Public Libraries or other users of LibGuides
Location
Poster Session and Meet & Greet
Relevance
Universal Design for Learning is a pedagogical approach that promotes access to instructional content for all learners. Our poster shares an approach to implementing UDL in LibGuides to help librarians design more inclusive LibGuides. Frame 2, Information Creation as a Process, is especially relevant here.
Proposal
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a pedagogical approach that many universities promote to their teaching faculty to help them design courses that are accessible to all learners. After librarians at our library took a course on Universal Design for Learning, we asked, how could we apply Universal Design for Learning principles to create more inclusive LibGuides? At first, we were overwhelmed by the wide range of possible accessibility and UDL features that we could incorporate into our LibGuides. We wondered if there might be a way to identify or prioritize effective UDL elements to include in a LibGuide. We attempted to answer this question by reading the library science literature on UDL elements in LibGuides which included usability studies of various UDL features. Based on the results of these usability studies, we developed a streamlined list of research-tested, impactful UDL elements that librarians with no technical background can easily build into LibGuides to make them more inclusive and accessible.
Presentation Description
How would you like to build more inclusive LibGuides in half the time? Librarians at the Emory Libraries have developed a practical, time-efficient approach to building more inclusive LibGuides with research-tested Universal Design for Learning elements. We hope you will drop by our poster to learn more about our strategy for creating inclusive LibGuides.
Keywords
LibGuides, accessibility, DEI, inclusive, Universal Design for Learning
Publication Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Recommended Citation
Elder, Jennifer, "From Daunting to Doable: A Practical Approach to Building Inclusive LibGuides" (2023). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 32.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2023/2023/32
From Daunting to Doable: A Practical Approach to Building Inclusive LibGuides
Poster Session and Meet & Greet
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a pedagogical approach that many universities promote to their teaching faculty to help them design courses that are accessible to all learners. After librarians at our library took a course on Universal Design for Learning, we asked, how could we apply Universal Design for Learning principles to create more inclusive LibGuides? At first, we were overwhelmed by the wide range of possible accessibility and UDL features that we could incorporate into our LibGuides. We wondered if there might be a way to identify or prioritize effective UDL elements to include in a LibGuide. We attempted to answer this question by reading the library science literature on UDL elements in LibGuides which included usability studies of various UDL features. Based on the results of these usability studies, we developed a streamlined list of research-tested, impactful UDL elements that librarians with no technical background can easily build into LibGuides to make them more inclusive and accessible.
