Tuesday Tips: Making the Most of Disability Pride Month

Sam Jones is the Youth Services Librarian at the Beaver Dam Public Library. Today she shares a tip on a some fabulous resources that help you be a better ally and also information on interviews available today and archived on Facebook.

Disability Pride Month may be almost over, but that doesn't mean we should stop thinking about how to serve all of our patrons in the best way possible. One article recently published is called "7 Tips on How to be a Better Disability Ally on the Bookish Internet." This has some really practical, simple advice that we can follow to make our library more welcoming and accessible. One example given is making sure that images have an alternative description. This is something that I have to work on remembering to do all the time. 

For events, the Facebook page, PBS Books has been hosting some author interviews with Judith Herman and Annette Bay Pimentel. Herman's interview will be today, July 26th, at 4 pm central and shown on their Facebook page. Herman wrote Being Heumann and Rolling Warrior and is considered the "mother of the disability rights movement." Pimentel's interview was on July 19th, but the interview is still on the Facebook page. They wrote many books, but was interviewed about All the Way to the Top: How One Girl's Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything. This book is about Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, an disability activist, and Keelan-Chaffins does the interview with Pimentel. I will definitely be going back to watch these interviews soon.