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Ash Lierman

@arlierman.bsky.social
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(they/them) University librarian, educational researcher, disabled, queer. Author of The Struggle You Can’t See: Experiences of Neurodivergent and Invisibly Disabled Students in Higher Education: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10…

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Ash Lierman @arlierman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Best-attended workshop of my library career, hands-down. I'm running it again in October, and thinking we may want to add sessions.
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Ash Lierman @arlierman.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
I've observed that my profession is pretty evenly divided between people who love helping and want to help everyone who uses the library get what they need, and people who love working in a library and want everyone who uses the library to leave so they can be left alone to work in the library
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Ash Lierman @arlierman.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I'm heartily sorry to every faculty member who has ever reached out to me for a simple answer about fair use or copyright and has instead found they've accidentally activated the World's Most Boring Special Interest
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Ash Lierman @arlierman.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
just incredibly normal signage to see at your place of employment
multiple signs on an outdoor patio reading LIVE HONEY BEES AHEADGob from Arrested Development saying Bees?!
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Open Book Publishers @openbookpublish.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
We've published two new blog posts today, reflecting on #OpenAccess, academic freedom & censorship -- one from our team, and another from one of our authors, Ash Lierman. Our team: blogs.openbookpublishers.com/defending-ac... Ash: blogs.openbookpublishers.com/defending-ac... #DefendResearch
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Defending Academic Freedom in an Age of Censorship: Why Open Access Matters More Than Ever
We believe OA publishing is crucial, because it is an act of resistance against censorship and control. When knowledge is published OA, it can be accessed in many places with no restriction. When know...
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Ash Lierman @arlierman.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Oh, wow - I am absolutely humbled to see that my book, The Struggle You Can’t See: Experiences of Neurodivergent and Invisibly Disabled Students in Higher Education, received an extremely kind Essential review as this week's featured Choice review: www.choice360.org/choice-pick/...
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The Struggle You Can’t See - Choice 360
This week’s review analyzes literature on disabled students’ experiences in higher education and examines barriers that bar inclusion.
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Ash Lierman @arlierman.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
AERA always like (IN SESSION) Wow having these high-level liberatory discussions of intersectional queer and disability justice are so deeply nourishing my soul! (LEAVES SESSION) I have immediately experienced 8 million different ambient microaggressions with such speed and intensity I am now dead
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Ash Lierman @arlierman.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Sometimes being a librarian really sucks, and other times you get to check out The Wind in the Willows to an undergrad who had never heard of it before.
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Ash Lierman @arlierman.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
c'mon man
a set of doors at the top of a staircase with a push button for wheelchair users, which is circled
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Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) @ala-acrl.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Join us this February for the four-part webcast series “Toward Inclusive Academic Librarian Hiring” to learn strategies for welcoming all job candidates, reducing barriers by centering invisible and visible identities, and more. Learn more on ACRL Insider and register today!
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Toward Inclusive Academic Librarian Hiring Webcast Series
Join ACRL this February for the four-part webcast series "Toward Inclusive Academic Librarian Hiring" to learn strategies for welcoming all job candidates, reducing barriers by centering invisible and...
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Lindsay @lindsonmars.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
More than I care about who you vote for in the upcoming @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social election, I care about the future of ALA as a means to ensure library workers are appropriately respected and compensated. Wrote a piece about it for Katina Magazine. Show up for ALA to show up for library workers.
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Why the American Library Association Still Matters
A candidate for president of the American Library Association makes the case that a strong ALA is the most powerful tool library workers have in the face of broad challenges and threats.
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Open Book Publishers @openbookpublish.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
OUT NOW: The Struggle You Can’t See by Ash Lierman — a vital resource on higher education experiences of neurodivergent and disabled students. Lierman integrates UDL, design thinking, and the neurodiversity model to highlight pathways for equity in higher ed. Read it here: buff.ly/3UFxJAX
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