[This page was developed to support a poster given at Digital Humanities 2017 in Montreal, Canada. Our poster presented this project’s design and scan of the literature for attendees at DH2017. A digital version of the poster will be available here soon.]
Welcome
Thank you for your interest, and we welcome your participation!
In 2016, the Digital Scholarship Group at Northeastern University Libraries was awarded an IMLS National Forums grant to support “Design for Diversity”: a series of public events aimed at developing a teaching and learning toolkit to support professional development for librarians, archivists, museum specialists, and other cultural heritage practitioners.
Design for Diversity focuses on the ways in which information systems embody and reinforce cultural norms. How can we design systems that account for diverse cultural materials and ways of knowing? [Read more about this project]
Participate
- Sign up for our email list or follow us on Twitter, particularly if you are interested in piloting the Toolkit in Fall 2018.
- View our Zotero bibliography (the raw data for the poster)
- Submit suggestions for our bibliography
- Submit case studies in information systems design
- Contact us at DesignforDiversity@northeastern.edu to request Zotero access, or with any other questions or comments