If you’ve been curious about Critical Hope as praxis for library practice and leadership, join Ione T. Damasco (University of Dayton) and me as we co-host Convening for Critical Hope – A Gathering for Consideration and Practice in Libraries. This community-building event will be held via Zoom on March 14 at 1P EST. It’s free – […]
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I felt like what I was doing was trying to make my work place a better workplace, and what I heard was like, ‘No, thank you. We’d rather work in a terrible place.’ – Participant, Low-Morale Experiences in Formal Library Leaders study Welcome to the first of a three-part series exploring Legacy Toxicity – a
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I’m strengthening my coaching and consultation efforts via ongoing education – to that end, I recently completed another course offered through the National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine (NICABM): How to Work with Negative Self-Narratives that Sustain Suffering (3.75 CEUs) Negative self-talk is one of the earliest indicators of workplace harm. NICABM’s
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In his 2023 contributed paper published in the 2023 Association of College and Research Libraries Conference Proceedings, Garnar reprises his dissertation exploring retention factors – along with identifying associated challenges – for librarians with racialized identities. In the article, he uses a qualitative approach and focuses on one of several themes salient in his study: microaggressions. He
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I’m entering the fifth week of my eight-week intensive course, Critical Hope & Self-Preservation in Contemporary Librarianship, which I’m offering to currently enrolled Dominican University School of Information Studies students (why Dominican University SOIS?). The course is billed as a Special Topics course (LIS 805) within the school, and I’m using Dr. Kari Grain’s book, Critical