This year, North Carolina Library Association’s Roundtable for Ethnic and Minority Concerns (NCLA REMCo) is offering a speaker series titled “Cultural Conversations. For their final installment, I was invited to discuss an intriguing piece of emerging data on from my study of low morale in racial and ethnic minority librarians: something I call deauthentication: … a […]
[This content was originally published on May 20, 2019 at The Ink On The Page.] This is the second of two blogposts sharing some of the qualitative data offered by respondents to my ongoing survey on deauthenticity in racial and ethnic minority academic librarians (read the initial qualitative report on deauthentication and library practice impacts
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To recognize winning the 2019 ACRL Academic/Research Librarian of the Year Award, Against the Grain interviewed me at length about my efforts regarding library development and many of my areas of scholarship. I shared details on both, in particular my research on low morale. Read the interview.
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The second session of my Library Juice Academy course, “Deconstructing the Low-Morale Experience in Academic Libraries,” is now in its third week. I asked students enrolled in the course to participate in a quick Low-Morale Experience Assessment survey, just so we could get a quick gauge on what the landscape looks like for this cohort. Course
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[This content was originally published on May 14, 2019 at The Ink On The Page.] After sharing my thoughts on the theme of deauthenticity that arose in my PoC academic librarian low-morale study data, I created a quick survey and reported the initial results via TIOTP last June. As a review, deauthentication is defined as “a cognitive process
Title: An investigation of factors impacting the wellness of academic library employees. Authors: Leo S. Lo & Bethany Herman ABSTRACT: The term “wellness” is fast garnering attention on how it affects one’s professional and personal life. This study explores the multi-dimensions of wellness and investigates factors that might impact the “wellness” of employees in academic
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Last week I facilitated The Renewals Seminar at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. The workshop was sponsored by UGA Libraries’ Professional Development and Research Committee (thanks to Benjamin Davis, who coordinated event logistics). Twenty people registered, and there was a short waiting list. Eighteen people attended the seminar. Attendees represented a range of specialties
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I’m thrilled to announce the launch of The Renewal Seminar and The Renewal Workshop. These professional development offerings are an extension of my online course, and they are designed to help organizations or groups intentionally participate in the work of promoting authentic collegiality, increasing civility, modeling humane leadership, and engaging in or creating meaningful employee support
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