Libraries are responsible for preserving and sharing our cultural heritage. For those who have access, libraries are powerful places of learning, belonging, community and change. Academic libraries also provide access to peers, mentors and disciplinary experts making them central to the career advancement of faculty and students. While there have been advancements in access to information for scholars who are blind, deafblind, low vision or who experience other print disabilities, significant accessibility and inclusion barriers persist. One empowering form of resistance to foster sustainable change lies in sharing lived experience, where blind and sighted scholars and library professionals invite others to reimagine what library accessibility and inclusion can and should be. This panel includes blind leaders, from the undergraduate to the faculty level, and sighted academic librarians. They will engage in a conversation about their experiences with accessible and inclusive research and academic libraries. Blind scholars will share first-hand perspectives on their interactions with academic libraries and how this changes as they move from research consumers to research generators. Barriers encountered by blind scholars will be discussed with a focus on tangible actions needed to advance meaningful, systemic, and sustainable change across the research and academic library landscape. Join us in discussing and sharing library initiatives of blind and sighted allies.