Seeking to Understand: A Journey into Disability Studies and Libraries

While we are not unusual; we are not aberrant. We are disabled librarians. We work in libraries all over the country. Our differences are wide-ranging. We have the same genders, ethnicities and sexual preferences as the rest of the library community.

Some of us deal with mobility impairments. However, a large part of this community is dealing with invisible impairments.

This can be seen as not only academic research but also emancipatory research, since we seek to change the world. We would l...