Jo Fitzpatrick
@jofitz.bsky.social
I do the Accessibility work package for Copim/Open Book Futures at Lancaster University | Open Research librarian | Co-chair of NLISN.org | CILIP 125 Emerging Leader | Profile photo is my cat Little Bruce
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NLISN are collecting case studies that showcase stories from the network.
We would like to demonstrate what is possible to improve and achieve, show others like us that they are not alone, and demonstrate how NLISN is making a difference to neurodivergent librarians.
We would like to demonstrate what is possible to improve and achieve, show others like us that they are not alone, and demonstrate how NLISN is making a difference to neurodivergent librarians.
November 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
NLISN are collecting case studies that showcase stories from the network.
We would like to demonstrate what is possible to improve and achieve, show others like us that they are not alone, and demonstrate how NLISN is making a difference to neurodivergent librarians.
We would like to demonstrate what is possible to improve and achieve, show others like us that they are not alone, and demonstrate how NLISN is making a difference to neurodivergent librarians.
Me and my husband, Kingsman Paul Fitzpatrick
November 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Me and my husband, Kingsman Paul Fitzpatrick
"... best practices are better implemented as the default so that all candidates, regardless of whether they are neurodivergent or neurotypical, can benefit without the added burden of disclosure at potential personal risk."
Are We Implementing Neuroinclusive Hiring Practices?: An Investigation for Academic Library Positions by Liz Bellamy, Alex Flores Glosson, James Glosson, Mary Oberlies, Michael Runyon and Paul Showalter
November 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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🎉Don’t miss this #wdpd2025 blog — a new #whypreserve story🎉Sustainable digital preservation must make the case for why we preserve. This year’s theme is a great opportunity to explore what that means for individuals and organizations. Read Nancy MacGovern´s […]
[Original post on digipres.club]
[Original post on digipres.club]
November 6, 2025 at 7:01 PM
🎉Don’t miss this #wdpd2025 blog — a new #whypreserve story🎉Sustainable digital preservation must make the case for why we preserve. This year’s theme is a great opportunity to explore what that means for individuals and organizations. Read Nancy MacGovern´s […]
[Original post on digipres.club]
[Original post on digipres.club]
📖 Library Colleagues! 📖
I've completed this first draft of some guidance on the topic of 'Accessibility for Librarians' and 'Discussing accessibility with small publishers' 🦽
compass.copim.ac.uk/books/09-ope...
I've completed this first draft of some guidance on the topic of 'Accessibility for Librarians' and 'Discussing accessibility with small publishers' 🦽
compass.copim.ac.uk/books/09-ope...
Accessibility for Libr... | Compass
Librarian Responsibilities
Accessibility applies to various aspects of libraries and there are seve...
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November 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
📖 Library Colleagues! 📖
I've completed this first draft of some guidance on the topic of 'Accessibility for Librarians' and 'Discussing accessibility with small publishers' 🦽
compass.copim.ac.uk/books/09-ope...
I've completed this first draft of some guidance on the topic of 'Accessibility for Librarians' and 'Discussing accessibility with small publishers' 🦽
compass.copim.ac.uk/books/09-ope...
Blessed Samhain night. May your ancestors look down upon you and be amazed that you're living like royalty. May you be without the slightest tiny whiff of the memory of fear. May you stand at the end of the line of the love of thousands. #Samhain
October 31, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Blessed Samhain night. May your ancestors look down upon you and be amazed that you're living like royalty. May you be without the slightest tiny whiff of the memory of fear. May you stand at the end of the line of the love of thousands. #Samhain
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The NLISN-NeuroGLAM Cooperative Coffee Catchup
Friday, November 7th, 8 AM - 9 AM BC time / 4 PM – 5 PM UK time
Join us for a joint coffee catch up with our Canadian friends NeuroGLAM!
More information: nlisn.org/upcoming-eve...
Registration link:
tru-ca.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Friday, November 7th, 8 AM - 9 AM BC time / 4 PM – 5 PM UK time
Join us for a joint coffee catch up with our Canadian friends NeuroGLAM!
More information: nlisn.org/upcoming-eve...
Registration link:
tru-ca.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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 po…
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October 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The NLISN-NeuroGLAM Cooperative Coffee Catchup
Friday, November 7th, 8 AM - 9 AM BC time / 4 PM – 5 PM UK time
Join us for a joint coffee catch up with our Canadian friends NeuroGLAM!
More information: nlisn.org/upcoming-eve...
Registration link:
tru-ca.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Friday, November 7th, 8 AM - 9 AM BC time / 4 PM – 5 PM UK time
Join us for a joint coffee catch up with our Canadian friends NeuroGLAM!
More information: nlisn.org/upcoming-eve...
Registration link:
tru-ca.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Huge thankyou to CILIP Disability Network for awarding NLISN this Accessibility Award, which has now safely arrived in the post! We won as an organisation so although Jo and Andy are named, this award is for all of us. The committee, the network and all our allies. #cilip #libraries #accessibility
October 27, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Huge thankyou to CILIP Disability Network for awarding NLISN this Accessibility Award, which has now safely arrived in the post! We won as an organisation so although Jo and Andy are named, this award is for all of us. The committee, the network and all our allies. #cilip #libraries #accessibility
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We will be closing our representation statistics survey at some point in the next month, and we have already heard from more than 1000 neurodivergent librarians! #librarians #neurodiversity
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October 27, 2025 at 8:38 AM
We will be closing our representation statistics survey at some point in the next month, and we have already heard from more than 1000 neurodivergent librarians! #librarians #neurodiversity
lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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WCAG 2.2 is now an international standard www.w3.org/press-releas...
W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 approved as ISO/IEC international standard
WCAG 2.2 is now ISO/IEC 40500:2025. This standard enables more countries to formally adopt WCAG 2.2. ISO/IEC 40500:2025 is free from the ISO website. Supporting resources and translations are free fro...
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October 22, 2025 at 11:15 AM
WCAG 2.2 is now an international standard www.w3.org/press-releas...
Myself and Jordy's blog post will be a topic for discussion at an upcoming ALN Research Support coffee morning. Here's the link to the group to find out more: academiclibrariesnorth.ac.uk/activities/s...
![0th November 10:30-11:30: ALN coffee break
This one will be a reading group with a couple of short pieces on the topic of open access and accessibility:
[Accessibility standard implementation and OA publishers]
[Turning academic publishing's accessibility problem into an inclusion opportunity]
If you are doing any work around this, it would be an opportunity to discuss this.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eb4e6plcddazz2tyobir757x/bafkreia5pqpvap53i2nwrqqfd3kk6p4afd7id6q4isxlaldbeei5ryne2m@jpeg)
October 20, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Myself and Jordy's blog post will be a topic for discussion at an upcoming ALN Research Support coffee morning. Here's the link to the group to find out more: academiclibrariesnorth.ac.uk/activities/s...
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Since 2022, we have released #OAWeek interviews to share more about who we are and what we care about when it comes to #OpenAccess books
The first interview this year is with @jofitz.bsky.social
🔗 buff.ly/1WmCrK9
2/6
The first interview this year is with @jofitz.bsky.social
🔗 buff.ly/1WmCrK9
2/6
Open Access Week 2025 Interview with Joanne Fitzpatrick - Copim
Since 2022, we have released Open Access Week interviews to share more about who we are and what we care about when it comes to open access books (here are th…
copim.pub
October 20, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Since 2022, we have released #OAWeek interviews to share more about who we are and what we care about when it comes to #OpenAccess books
The first interview this year is with @jofitz.bsky.social
🔗 buff.ly/1WmCrK9
2/6
The first interview this year is with @jofitz.bsky.social
🔗 buff.ly/1WmCrK9
2/6
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Reposted by Jo Fitzpatrick
Keep Your Research Data Safe.
Online Workshop: Working with Personal & Sensitive Data, 23rd October, 2-4pm.
Don’t be the last to know. Book your place now: buff.ly/OXSKWlB.
Online Workshop: Working with Personal & Sensitive Data, 23rd October, 2-4pm.
Don’t be the last to know. Book your place now: buff.ly/OXSKWlB.
October 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Keep Your Research Data Safe.
Online Workshop: Working with Personal & Sensitive Data, 23rd October, 2-4pm.
Don’t be the last to know. Book your place now: buff.ly/OXSKWlB.
Online Workshop: Working with Personal & Sensitive Data, 23rd October, 2-4pm.
Don’t be the last to know. Book your place now: buff.ly/OXSKWlB.
I got a Hookland goodnight, yeay.
Goodnight Jo. Dream deep.
October 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I got a Hookland goodnight, yeay.
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📣New online @nlisn.bsky.social event announced:
#Neurodivergent #Reading Practices in Swedish #Educational Contexts
www.eventbrite.com/e/neurodiver...
We've decided that online events will be free however a donation supports the costs of hosting the website & in person events
#Dyslexia
#Autism
#ADHD
#Neurodivergent #Reading Practices in Swedish #Educational Contexts
www.eventbrite.com/e/neurodiver...
We've decided that online events will be free however a donation supports the costs of hosting the website & in person events
#Dyslexia
#Autism
#ADHD
Neurodivergent Reading Practices in Swedish Educational Contexts
Join NLISN and the two doctoral candidates Katarina Hagberg and Karin Lund in this session on neurodivergent reading research.
www.eventbrite.com
October 8, 2025 at 8:08 AM
📣New online @nlisn.bsky.social event announced:
#Neurodivergent #Reading Practices in Swedish #Educational Contexts
www.eventbrite.com/e/neurodiver...
We've decided that online events will be free however a donation supports the costs of hosting the website & in person events
#Dyslexia
#Autism
#ADHD
#Neurodivergent #Reading Practices in Swedish #Educational Contexts
www.eventbrite.com/e/neurodiver...
We've decided that online events will be free however a donation supports the costs of hosting the website & in person events
#Dyslexia
#Autism
#ADHD
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Hot off the press 🔥
Major new report from @openbookcollective.bsky.social exploring librarians’ experiences and barriers to participation in collective funding models for #OpenAccess books 📚
Based on interviews with participants from Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland & Sweden 🗣️
Major new report from @openbookcollective.bsky.social exploring librarians’ experiences and barriers to participation in collective funding models for #OpenAccess books 📚
Based on interviews with participants from Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland & Sweden 🗣️
🧵 The Open Book Collective is pleased to announce publication of our new report: Collective funding models for open access books: Librarians’ experiences and barriers to participation across six European contexts openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/report-o...
Report on librarians' barriers to participation in collective funding models for open access books
Announcing a new report published by the Open Book Collective exploring librarians’ experiences and barriers to participation in collective funding models for open access books across six European con...
openbookcollective.pubpub.org
October 13, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Hot off the press 🔥
Major new report from @openbookcollective.bsky.social exploring librarians’ experiences and barriers to participation in collective funding models for #OpenAccess books 📚
Based on interviews with participants from Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland & Sweden 🗣️
Major new report from @openbookcollective.bsky.social exploring librarians’ experiences and barriers to participation in collective funding models for #OpenAccess books 📚
Based on interviews with participants from Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland & Sweden 🗣️
Reposted by Jo Fitzpatrick
📢 NLISN In Person Event! 📢
Adjustments in the LIS Workplace for Neurodivergent Staff
Monday, October 6 · 10am – 3:30pm GMT+1
Leeds Beckett University, Headingly Campus
£25.00
Book here 👉
www.eventbrite.com/e/adjustment...
Adjustments in the LIS Workplace for Neurodivergent Staff
Monday, October 6 · 10am – 3:30pm GMT+1
Leeds Beckett University, Headingly Campus
£25.00
Book here 👉
www.eventbrite.com/e/adjustment...
September 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
📢 NLISN In Person Event! 📢
Adjustments in the LIS Workplace for Neurodivergent Staff
Monday, October 6 · 10am – 3:30pm GMT+1
Leeds Beckett University, Headingly Campus
£25.00
Book here 👉
www.eventbrite.com/e/adjustment...
Adjustments in the LIS Workplace for Neurodivergent Staff
Monday, October 6 · 10am – 3:30pm GMT+1
Leeds Beckett University, Headingly Campus
£25.00
Book here 👉
www.eventbrite.com/e/adjustment...
Arriving at my old undergrad campus Leeds Beckett for an @nlisn.bsky.social meet up today.
October 6, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Arriving at my old undergrad campus Leeds Beckett for an @nlisn.bsky.social meet up today.
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Ah RIP Pat Crowther, last of the early Gardinerian mothers, the northern one that carried on witching the longest out of them all.
September 25, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Ah RIP Pat Crowther, last of the early Gardinerian mothers, the northern one that carried on witching the longest out of them all.
I also haven't been able to say Augoeides without looking it up first for at least 6 years now and I really annoy myself.
I've been trying for years now, but I can't say 'Qualitative and Quantitative' right on the first try ever. It takes me minimum 2 goes.
September 23, 2025 at 8:17 AM
I also haven't been able to say Augoeides without looking it up first for at least 6 years now and I really annoy myself.
May you enjoy the comforts, without letting them capture you forever. May you enjoy the fruits that the giants planted aeons ago. May you feel comfortable with uncertainty and change, knowing you are following the divine truth.
#Haerfest #AutumnEquinox
#Haerfest #AutumnEquinox
September 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
May you enjoy the comforts, without letting them capture you forever. May you enjoy the fruits that the giants planted aeons ago. May you feel comfortable with uncertainty and change, knowing you are following the divine truth.
#Haerfest #AutumnEquinox
#Haerfest #AutumnEquinox
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@nlisn.bsky.social is attempting to assess the proportion/spread of neurodiversity across across all UK library sectors. If you identify as neurodivergent, with or without a formal diagnosis, or suspect you may be - please fill in our short survey!
Reblogging/signal-boosting much appreciated!
Reblogging/signal-boosting much appreciated!
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September 16, 2025 at 12:43 PM
@nlisn.bsky.social is attempting to assess the proportion/spread of neurodiversity across across all UK library sectors. If you identify as neurodivergent, with or without a formal diagnosis, or suspect you may be - please fill in our short survey!
Reblogging/signal-boosting much appreciated!
Reblogging/signal-boosting much appreciated!
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Shining a light on @thoth-metadata.bsky.social 🔦
They'll shortly be delivering a lightning presentation at #ALPSP2025 as a nominee for the @alpsp.bsky.social Award for Innovation in Publishing ⚡
Best of luck - bring it home guys 💪
www.alpsp.org/news-publica...
They'll shortly be delivering a lightning presentation at #ALPSP2025 as a nominee for the @alpsp.bsky.social Award for Innovation in Publishing ⚡
Best of luck - bring it home guys 💪
www.alpsp.org/news-publica...
Spotlight on: Thoth Open Metadata
This year, the judges have selected four finalists for the ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing. The finalists will be showcased in a lightning pres...
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September 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Shining a light on @thoth-metadata.bsky.social 🔦
They'll shortly be delivering a lightning presentation at #ALPSP2025 as a nominee for the @alpsp.bsky.social Award for Innovation in Publishing ⚡
Best of luck - bring it home guys 💪
www.alpsp.org/news-publica...
They'll shortly be delivering a lightning presentation at #ALPSP2025 as a nominee for the @alpsp.bsky.social Award for Innovation in Publishing ⚡
Best of luck - bring it home guys 💪
www.alpsp.org/news-publica...