Presented at CONUL Annual Conference, May 2022, Limerick, Ireland

1. Library Services at the
Heart of Equality, Diversity,
and Inclusion
Elaine Chapman
Sarah-Anne Kennedy

2. Are we truly
inclusive?

3. What systems do
we work within?
Ivory towers
What systems do
we use ourselves?

4. We need to make academia
accessible in every way
for single parents, those in
poverty, disabled people,
people from minority
ethnicities, those who work,
those who can only attend
distance classes and more

5. The key to accessibility is flexibility

6. "Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the
spider is chaos for the fly."
-Morticia Addams

7. Stereotypes of our profession
Glass ceilings
Flexible working benefits more than just employees with a disability

8. We need to look at
restructuring our own
systems too.

9. Melvil Dewey is a
problematic figure.
The American Library
Association Melvil Dewey
Medal renamed the ALA
Medal of Excellence

10. A book on autism is
classified at 616.85882
Autism is not a disease or
a psychiatric illness

11. Minorities not
represented correctly
Is there a Dewey
Number for Irish
Travellers?

12. Classification systems
and technology can
discriminate.
Artificial Intelligence
and Race
Employment
Algorithims

13. Starting Anew
Equality versus Equity
We need to tackle the
systemic inequalities that
exist in our society
to create truly equal
access.

14. Irish Universities are
actively pursuing
inclusion and creating
communities

15. TU Dublin's Strategic
Plan
3 Pillars:
People
Planet
Partnership
Organisation Design:
Staff, students, and
researchers all have an
opportunity to shape it.

16. 10 Guiding Principles for TU Dublin's
Educational Model:
1. Student-Centred and Student
Engaged for Student Success.
2. Connected, Engaged,
Internationalised Curriculum.
3. Distinguished by diversity of
provision and focus on practice and
career development.
4. Excellent, flexible, agile teaching
& learning.
5. Knowledge - creation to
application.
6. Highly engaged student
experience.
7. Inclusive, global, multicultural.
8. Continuously developing,
committed and caring staff.
9. Transition.
10. Access and equal opportunity.

17. Equality, Diversity,
and Inclusion are
at the heart of
TU Dublin Library
Services' design
report.

18. Aligns with the EDI principles of
the University's strategic plan
and Library Services' ethos.
Applies to physical space and
facilities as well as our teaching
and learning through Universal
Design for Learning.
Was a key feature of
stakeholder feedback
Access &
Universal
Design
Accessible

19. IMPACT funded
Library VR and AR
Orientation Tour.
Designed and
developed by students
for students with an aim
to support students, in
particular those with a
disability, before they
come on campus.

20. IMPACT funded
Building Multi-Stories
project.
Aim is to support
ecological literacy,
information literacy, and
metaliteracy, while
making advancements
in diversifying the
curriculum.

21. AT 4 All
We're partnering with
this project to lend
Assistive Tech and
create maker-spaces in
our libraries.

23. Go raibh maith agat
Thank You
Elaine Chapman
elaine.chapman@tudublin.ie
Sarah-Anne Kennedy
Sarahanne.kennedy@tudublin.ie