Upcoming Events

The NLISN-NeuroGLAM Cooperative Coffee Catchup

Friday, November 7th, 8 AM – 9 AM BC time / 4 PM – 5 PM UK time

Reach out to other neurodivergent librarians and knowledge workers across the pond to form connections between Canadian and UK-based librarians.

The Neurodivergent Library and Information Staff Network (NLISN) and Neuro-GLAM-erous Canada (NeuroGLAM) are having a joint coffee catchup on Friday, November 7th 8 – 9 AM Pacific Time Zone, 4 PM – 5 PM Greenwich Mean Time.

Some possible conversation topic might include, but are not limited to:

Experiences seeking accommodations at work.
Experience job searching
Things that are good about libraries and neurodivergence
Can our institutions comment on supports they provide to patrons and staff
Favourite neurodivergent resources/scholarship/writing/articles
Media that you like for its portrayals of neurodivergence
SPINs (special interests)
SPINs and work Institutional policy around EDI, DEI, IDEA, etc. at their institution.
How does neurodiversity appear in such policies?
Intersectionality and neurodivergence.

Hope to see you there!

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Neurodivergent Reading Practices in Swedish Educational Contexts

11^th November 9am-10am UK time

NLISN are hosting an online event where two doctoral candidates Katarina Hagberg and Karin Lund will be discussing their research on Neurodivergent Reading Practices in Swedish Educational Contexts.

While digital technologies for reading such as audiobooks are popular among neurodivergent readers, there is also a current debate in Sweden about children and young people’s reading with frequent calls to return to print. Neurodivergent perspectives often go unheard in this debate, and little research focuses on the lived experiences of neurodivergent readers. The two upcoming dissertations presented at this seminar seek to fill this gap by exploring reading practices among neurodivergent students in secondary school and higher education.

Reading to learn: Exploring reading practices among adolescents with dyslexia
Katarina Hagberg, The Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås

My doctoral project explores how adolescents with dyslexia describe their school-related reading, focusing on the tools and strategies they use. By centering the adolescents’ own perspectives and experiences and adopting a norm-critical and rights-based lens, the project aims to increase knowledge, deepen understanding and highlight the needs, conditions, and reading practices of this large and diverse group.

Reading by listening in academia: Students with ADHD’s experiences of audio-based technologies in higher education
Karin Lundin, Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University

My research project seeks to create knowledge about how students with ADHD in Swedish higher education make use of audiobooks and text-to-speech in their studies, conceptualized as academic reading by listening. Another aim is to explore what notions of (academic) reading that the students meet, and how these discourses influence students’ perceptions of their own reading practices.

This is a free event, however you still need to book your place via Eventbrite in order to receive the event link. To book your place and see further information about the event please see Neurodivergent Reading Practices in Swedish Educational Contexts. There is also a donation ticket option if you would like to support the work of NLISN. We have decided that all online events we run will be free, however a donation would support the costs of hosting the NLISN website, running in person events, and paying external speakers where a fee to speak would be required.

If you are interesting in presenting/speaking at an online NLISN event on a topic you feel would be relevant to the NLISN network and audience we are keen to hear from you, please get in touch with me if this is something you are interested in.

NLISN Online Coffee Catch Ups

Our Online Coffee Catch Ups will run every month and are an opportunity for you to meet with other members of the network online in an informal space with no agendas/CPD/set topics. We aim to create a space where we can get to know each other and have informal and supportive discussions.

Friday 10^th October 11am -12pm

Wednesday 5^th Nov 11am -12pm

Friday 5^th December 10am -11am

Join the JISCmail list to automatically receive invitations to every Coffee Catch Up. The Coffee Catch Ups will be run via Teams and will be facilitated by a member of the NLISN committee. We have tried to vary the days and times each month as we know everyone’s availability will change depending on role, sector, and individual working pattern. Over this first year we will monitor days and times that seem to be better for the network and take this into account when scheduling the ones for 2026.

Please feel free to accept the Team meeting invitations even if you are not sure you will be able to attend to ensure they are in your calendar. Individual attendance beyond total number of people will not be monitored at all, so accepting them does not mean you are obliged to attend.