June 2019

Reserved: The Renewals Workshop @ NCLA 2019 Conference (October 2019)

I’m very honored to announce that The Renewals Workshop will be offered at the North Carolina Library Association’s Biennial Conference in October. The workshop is generously sponsored by the NCLA Roundtable for Ethnic Minority Concerns (REMCO) The Renewals Workshop is slated as a pre-conference event and is scheduled for Tuesday, October 15 from 1:30 p.m. […]

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From the May 2019 Course: Course Evaluations

This post is the second of a two-part series of items I’m sharing from the second session of my course, “Deconstructing the Low-Morale Experience in Academic Libraries,” which was offered via Library Juice Academy in May 2019. Following are some summarized results of the course evaluation. The evaluation was voluntary with 31% of participants responding.

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From the May 2019 Course: Suggested Readings from Students

This post is the first of a two-part series of items I’m sharing from the second session of my course, “Deconstructing the Low-Morale Experience in Academic Libraries,” which was offered via Library Juice Academy in May 2019. Throughout the course, students shared readings that are helping them change their work culture or better understand issues

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Report Update: Deauthentication Survey Results (June 2019)

[This post was originally published on June 3, 2019 at The Ink On The Page.] Late last spring I shared the original results of my deauthentication survey with TIOTP readers. The survey came out of my desire to explore this sub-phenomenon that seems to occur for racial/ethnic minority academic librarians who are experiencing low morale (repeated

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Renewals Reach: Social justice, archives, and low morale

Aaisha Haykal deftly intertwines gaps and biases of historical record-keeping and preservation and the work that should (and continues to be) done to correct such gaps and oversights. She links these ideas to a summary of sessions presented at the 2018 Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting and injects established research into how archivists can

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