August 2019

Interview: Library Journal (August 2019)

Library Journal’s Deimosa Webber-Rey interviewed me about the low morale study focusing on racial and ethnic minority academic librarians. In the article, I discuss the specific impact factors that affect this group as they traverse the low-morale experience and share my ongoing concerns about the study’s data.  Read more. You can also read my 2020 […]

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Renewals Reach: Saying “No” at work.

In November 2018, Melanie Cassidy, Ali Versluis, and Erin Menzies hosted a roundtable at the Critical Librarianship & Pedagogy Symposium (University of Arizona). Their discussion, titled “Disrupting traditional power structures in academic libraries: Saying no, how to do it, and why it matters,”centers the framework of resilience narratives and how they are used against librarians

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IDEAL ’19 – PoC Low Morale Presentation

Earlier this month with Ione T. Damasco (University of Dayton) at the IDEAL ’19 Conference, I presented our low morale study centering racial and ethnic minority academic librarians. Click the image above to see the presentation, which summarizes my original 2017 low morale study and selected results of the racial/ethnic minority academic librarian study.  You

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