Penrose Library Awarded for Accessibility and Diversity Efforts

Penrose Library Awarded for Accessibility and Diversity Efforts

Photo by Atziri Fernandez-Orozco As students congregate in study groups around the library to try and study for exams or work on projects, a group of staff is working behind the scenes making the space more accessible and inclusive. Penrose Library has recently been awarded the 2025 Library Excellence in Accessibility and Diversity (LEAD) Award from Insight Into Diversity magazine, and is recognized as a stand-out library across the nation among…

Access for Whom? An Examination of Public-Facing Accessibility Practices in Library Accessibility Alliance Members’ Open Access Institutional Repositories

This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.Introduction: Open access aims to provide access to research and scholarship without barriers. An important tool in this process has been institutional repositories (IRs), which disseminate and preserve open scholarship. The goal of this research project was to examine the extent to which IRs in the U.S. are incorporating publicfacing accessibility practices to make th…