Enhancing Accessibility: Five Strategies to Apply Tomorrow
This presentation explores five specific suggestions to deliver relevant, accessible, and inclusive instruction. These recommendations align with our principles of virtual instruction: approachability and inclusivity, responsiveness, reflection, collaboration, and curiosity.
In this talk, we will share five tried and true suggestions for delivering accessible and inclusive library instruction that is 100% virtual! We have honed our virtual instruction chops at Strayer University Library for many years and want to share our principles of virtual delivery. Our principles include approachability and inclusivity, responsiveness, reflection, collaboration, and curiosity. We hope that attendees leave with reinvigorated ideas of how to lead virtual sessions which engage all patrons.
You can find resources for this presentation here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rMZf...
About the Presenters:
Mary A. Snyder is the University Librarian at Strayer University where she has reinvented the library to offer an online-first approach to services and collections. She is focused on providing a student experience that is friendly, welcoming, and motivating. Mary has an M.L.S. from University of Maryland and is a proud member of their inaugural 100% virtual cohort of library students. Prior to higher education, she worked in museums, archives, and historical societies. In her personal life, Mary and her family are training Samwise, their German Shepherd / Husky mix puppy.
Amber Eakin is the Instructional Librarian for Strayer University. She reinvigorated the library's 100% virtual instruction strategy with inspiration from Malcolm's assumptions of andragogy and Grow's Staged Self-Directed Learning. After completing her Master of Science in Library Science in 2011, she earned a Master of Education in Adult Education and Development in 2018. Currently, Amber is working toward her Doctor of Education in Performance Improvement Leadership. She and her husband live in wild and wonderful West Virginia with their menagerie of pets.