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About This Journal

Disability in Libraries and Information Studies (DisLIS) is an open access, multimedia journal run by information professionals who work in various types of information-oriented jobs. All members of the Editorial Board either have disabilities or have extensive experience with disability-centered work.

Our publishing focus is to center the experience of disability within information work in a variety of settings including but not limited to K-12 schools; LIS programs; public, academic, special, or other types of libraries or archives; focusing on the experiences of library or archive workers or users, or people who work with libraries in other ways. Works published may take a variety of forms including book reviews, peer-reviewed scholarly articles or case studies, poetry, and recorded interviews.

Our hope is that by disseminating these experiences, we can provide comfort and a sense of community and a community of care for disabled people. We also hope that by sharing these insights with the broader world, nondisabled people come to a greater understanding and appreciation of their disabled neighbors and the variety of shapes, sizes, sounds, appearances, and movements that encompass the human experience.

Frequency

Submissions: once a year for reviewed articles and rolling book reviews

- Articles: first issue submissions 2025

- Book reviews: open submissions starting spring 2024

Published issues:

- Article: first issue 2025/26

- Book reviews: first issue September 2024