Kaetrena Davis Kendrick

Report: The Reset Experience: mid-winter 2026 (February 2026)

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Renewals hosted the second session of The Reset Experience on February 4, 2026. This second session attracted over 200 registrants, and during the two-hour event (technical difficulties nonwithstanding!) attendees heard from invited speakers as we delved into a focused exploration of recovery from workplace harm, burnout, and associated experiences. The Reset Experience also offered attendees […]

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Spring 2026 Course Brief: Critical Hope & Self-Preservation in Contemporary Librarianship – Reflections on Positionality

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I’m in the third week of my eight-week intensive course, Critical Hope & Self-Preservation in Contemporary Librarianship, which I’m teaching to currently enrolled Dominican University School of Information Studies students. A Special Topics course (LIS 805) within the school, this course includes an introduction to the concepts of Critical Hope and how it may be used

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Book Haul: Reflective Fiction

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Sometimes when I’m reading for pleasure, the prose, concerns, conversations, or challenges that protagonists face offer unwitting help as I navigate my own recovery from workplace harm. Concerns about belonging, discerning safety, navigating freedom, remembering missed chances to make another decision, or meeting people who help us along the way – all show up from

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Register: The Reset Experience (mid-winter 2026)

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I’m excited to announce that registration for The Reset Experience is now open!  Scheduled for early February, the two-hour community-centered event will offer dedicated time for attendees to explore strategies to consider recovery from workplace harm.  Click to register and learn more about the event, including slated speakers and points of practice that will be

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Renewals Reach: Toxic leadership mitigation

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Glover’s 2024 dissertation explores the impacts of toxic leadership on employees through the lens of lived experiences. Through her qualitative methodology, which included gathering narratives of employees working under toxic leaders, several signals that aid in identifying toxic leaders and reducing the impact of toxic leaders on employee health are offered. Read the dissertation.

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Book Haul: Clear Communication

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Passive-Aggressive Communication is one of the main causes and manifestions of dysfunctional workplaces. Harmed employees note that one of their main areas of worry and rumination is trying to strategize responses to sarcastic statements, barbs, and other forms of ambivalently harmful communication.  The following titles share strategies that may support, cultivate, or model clear communication

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Reserved: 2026 Minnesota Institute for Early Career Librarians

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As a graduate of the 2008 Minnesota Institute for Early Career Librarians (MIECL), I am excited to share that I’ll be returning to co-lead the 2026 Institute with Pamela Espinosa de los Monteros, and with support from past co-lead faculty Ione T. Damasco. Scheduled for July 12 – 15, 2026, MIECL is an intensive four-day leadership

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Revealed: The Reset Experience (Winter 2026)

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Renewals continues to refine efforts to create community and share practices that interrupt and reduce workplace harm. To that end, I’m vibrating with excitement to announce the next Reset Experience! Tentatively slated for early 2026, the two-hour community-centered event will offer dedicated time for attendees to explore strategies to confront and/or recover from workplace harm. 

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Report: Library Worker Hopes from the Library Marketing & Communications Conference Keynote (November 2025)

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Just last week I offered a keynote at the 2025 Library Marketing and Communications Conference (LMCC 2025). While it took place in-person in St. Louis, Missouri, just steps from the Gateway Arch, late-breaking Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) flight reductions connected to the Federal goverment shutdown (along with unexpected caregiving duties) interrupted my planned trip to

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