Commemorating National Hispanic Heritage Month with TIE and Choice Content 2026
TIE and Choice resources that highlight Latinx scholarship, literature, and activism
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Commemorating Disability Pride Month with TIE and Choice Content
Interviews, blog posts, resource lists, and book reviews on disability studies and accessibility
Posted on July 1, 2025 in Blog Posts
Commemorating Disability Pride Month
To commemorate Disability Pride Month, the Toward Inclusive Excellence team gathered pertinent TIE and Choice blog posts, resource lists, and interviews from the past year. This collection features topics like the intersection of disability studies and comics, web accessibility guidelines, and the experiences of neurodivergent students in higher education. Choice, the publisher of TIE and a publishing unit at the Association of College & Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association, provides book reviews to help librarians identify academic sources and professional development tools like webinars, podcasts, and white papers.
Acknowledging the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act on July 26, 1990, Disability Pride Month recognizes the efforts of disability rights activists and celebrates the disability community. New content will be added throughout July, so make sure to revisit this page for new resources! We hope you find this page useful to further your exploration and understanding of disability rights.
TIE Blog
These selections include several TIE blog posts and resource lists on topics like how libraries can foster belonging, portrayals of disability in comics and graphic narratives, and upcoming reads in disability studies. To keep up with upcoming TIE content, subscribe to the TIE newsletter.
TIE Preview of Upcoming Reads in Disability Studies, 2025 (Added 7/24/25)
More Than a Study Spot: How Libraries Foster Belonging
The concept of belonging has emerged as a key focus in discussions surrounding diversity, equity, and inclusion. As Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey highlight in their paper “What Does It Mean to Belong?”, Stanford researcher Geoffrey Cohen defines belonging as “the feeling that we’re part of a larger group that values, respects, and cares for us—and to which we feel we have something to contribute” in his book Belonging (2022). But what does this mean within the context of academic libraries? Read the blog post.
TIE Talks with Crystal Yin Lie
This TIE Talks features Crystal Yin Lie, an Assistant Professor of Comparative World Literature at California University, Long Beach. In this interview, Crystal dives into how her research interests of disability studies and comics & graphic narratives intersect. Following a 2021 Choice-ACRL webinar on utilizing graphic narratives for interdisciplinary teaching, Crystal describes historical and contemporary portrayals of disability in comics, the counternarratives and limitations of graphic medicine, and her forthcoming research projects. We also include a list of the resources Crystal mentions (comics, articles, websites) at the end of the interview. Read the interview with Crystal.
A Selection of Titles to Commemorate Intersectionality Awareness Month
In honor of August being Intersectionality Awareness Month, TIE has teamed up with Resources for College Libraries (RCL)—a great resource for libraries looking to diversify their collections—to share with our readers important titles on intersectionality. The term, coined by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, denotes how different social markers, such as race, gender, and class, overlap and intersect to yield unique challenges and manifestations of discrimination for those encompassed by these different categories. We all strive for inclusive excellence within our institutions and social circles, and these important resources can help readers better attain that goal. Read the selection of titles.
TIE Preview of Upcoming Reads in Disability Studies, 2024
Find more posts on the TIE Blog, including:
- Crip Time in the Academic Library
- Hybrid Conferences Are an Accessibility Issue
- Videoconferencing in the “Post-Pandemic” Era: Accessibility across Difference
- Cultivating a Sense of Belonging: What Does “Belonging” Mean for Libraries in the Era of Loneliness?
- Resources for Understanding the Ethical Implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) – Disability and AI
Review of the Week
Each week Choice highlights a review that addresses a topical issue, event, or holiday—or simply, a review we believe deserves more attention. These picks discuss the accessibility of historic sites, the Asian American mental health crisis, and strategies for advancing cultural humility in the library.
LibTech Insights
LibTech Insights (LTI) is a content vertical that examines the day-to-day impact of library and education technology on the higher education community. The channel provides practical guidance on technology trends and products as they relate to opportunities and challenges involving issues such as productivity, accessibility, discovery, operations, and content management. These picks provide overviews, tips, and tests to ensure web content accessibility.
Creating Alt Text for Digital Collections with AI: A Case Study
Facing a digital accessibility compliance deadline, as many colleagues are, we wondered whether and how AI tools could be implemented to generate text alternatives (“alt text”) for existing online images within the Stanford Libraries’ digital exhibits and anywhere else we might need to remediate large numbers of images. Most of these images represent objects in library collections, and therefore have metadata, while new LLMs called “vision language” models have a sophisticated understanding of the relationship between text and image. Could we bring vision language models’ understanding of the images together with existing metadata to create alt text that would be useful to patrons who need it? Read the LTI blog post.
5 Quick Tests to Run on Your Library Website
How well is your library website working for your users? Even if you don’t have time right now to conduct user research (like user interviews or a usability study), you can still run five tests to ascertain the health and user-friendliness of your website. Read the LTI blog post.
Ready for It? Ensuring Web Content Accessibility in Libraries
In April, the Department of Justice (DOJ) updated its regulations to Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act. This act ensures “nondiscrimination on the basis of disability in state and local government services.” Many people with disabilities encounter barriers while trying to access information on state and local government websites, including public libraries, public schools, and public universities. For example, an inaccessible website may not enable keyboard navigation or the use of screen readers, limiting users from potential library resources or services. Read the LTI blog post.
Find more posts on LibTech Insights, including:
- How to Get Statistics about Your Institution’s Accessibility Needs
- Getting Started with Accessible User Experience (UX) Research
- Advocating for eResource Content Accessibility
- Digital Accessibility in Libraries: A Primer
- From Environmental Scan to Action Plan: A Case Study in Accessibility
Check out last year’s Disability Pride Month round-up.
Header image is a detail of This is Harlem by Jacob Lawrence. Courtesy of Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. © 2021 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. For more information, click here.