Diversity & User Experience (DUX) Community Calls

Schedule and Access

Community Calls, formerly known as Open Calls, are the Third Thursday from 2pm to 3pm (Pacific). Login information will be included at the top of the agenda, which is linked below with recordings, transcripts, and chat logs. Contact Amy Coughenour if you missed the login information, or contact Elizabeth Duell if you would like to be added to the DUX Discussion List to receive the agendas and other program information.

The DUX Community Engagement Standing Group encourages all Alliance member staff to attend our community calls, especially if your work includes user experience; accessibility; diversity, equity, and inclusion; reference and instruction; liaisonship; or other areas of library work where you directly assist, support, and engage with users.

Topics and Questions

If you have a question to ask or an issue to bring up with the community, contact Amy Coughenour or use the Anonymous Ask form!

Agendas and Recordings

Beginning with January 2022, DUX Community Calls use a running agenda format for the academic year, with the newest meeting consistently at the top of the document. This offers easy context and searchability.

October 2023 to June 2024

FY2024 Running Agenda

September 2022 to May 2023

FY2023 Running Agenda

  • May 23, 2023 – Recording, Automated Transcript, Chat Log
    • Updates, including Standing Groups (ASG and DEISG)
    • Reviews and previews (DUX program updates, fines-free conversation, UX in physical spaces)
  • April 25, 2023 – Recording, Automated Transcript, Chat Log
    • Updates, including Standing Groups (ASG and DEISG)
    • Fines-Free Conversation Part 1 (theory) – equity, options, fears and concerns, successes, user experience, and other adjacent topics
  • February 28, 2023 – Recording, Automated Transcript, Chat Log
    • Updates, including Standing Groups (ASG and DEISG)
    • …With Literacy and Justice for All: Library Services to Refugees & Newcomers – Claire Dannenbaum (LCC)
    • PCSG request for feedback about the text a call number feature – Perri Moreno (UI)
  • January 24, 2023 – Recording, Automated Transcript, Chat Log
    • Updates, including Standing Groups (ASG and DEISG)
    • Conversation: UX in physical spaces, accessibility-related activity at local libraries, Primo VE check-in
  • December 13, 2022 – Recording, Automated Transcript, Chat Log
    • Updates, including Standing Groups (ASG and DEISG)
    • UX in physical spaces
  • November 22, 2022 – Recording, Automated Transcript, Chat Log
    • Updates, including Standing Groups (ASG and DEISG)
    • Discourse of Decolonization – Kael Moffat (SMU) (list of references)
  • October 25, 2022 – Recording, Automated Transcript, Chat Log
    • Updates, including Standing Groups (ASG and DEISG)
    • DEI/DUX associated talks
      • Research, Reading & Writing Studio – Janet Hauck (SPU)
      • DEISG: DEI vocabulary and usage (discussing disability) – Robert Perret (UI)
    • DUX project for FY23 – UX in physical spaces
    • Primo VE check-in
  • September 27, 2022 – Recording, Automated Transcript, Chat Log
    • Updates and scope overview
    • Discussion to plan for the upcoming year

Previous Years