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Summer 2026 Course Brief: Critical Hope & Self-Preservation in Contemporary Librarianship – Low-Morale Experience Assessment

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In the latter units of this course, students are guided through content and conversations surrounding morale, which then move into conversations about self-preservation and alignments with critical hope praxis. As part of these discussions, students were offered the optional opportunity to take the Low-Morale Experience Assessment. Following are two sets of results (one from each

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Summer 2026 Course Brief: Critical Hope & Self-Preservation in Contemporary Librarianship – Positionality Exercise

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During the first week of our course, we explored the contemporary principles of Critical Hope practice, brought to us via our core text, Critical Hope: How to grapple with complexity, lead with purpose, and cultivate transformative social change by Kari Grain. As part of our discussion, we also considered the role of positionality associated identities

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Summer 2026 Course Brief: Critical Hope & Self-Preservation in Contemporary Librarianship – Student Reads

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For the past few years, I’ve taught my original course, Critical Hope & Self-Preservation in Contemporary Librarianship with the Dominican University School of Information Studies. This year I expanded availability of this course by offering it through the University of South Carolina School of Information Science (iSchool)! Moreover, it was made available to both degree-seeking students

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Spring 2026 Course Brief: Critical Hope & Self-Preservation in Contemporary Librarianship – Student Reads

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It stands to reason that in a graduate school of information studies, the question “What are you reading ?”will eventually come up. Earlier this semester, I asked the students about their current reads! Here is a listing of what students are reading (shared with students’ permission): How to Resist Amazon and Why by Danny Caine Go Tell It

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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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Spring 2025 Course Brief: Critical Hope & Self-Preservation in Contemporary Librarianship – Student Creativity & Course Evaluations (April 2025)

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A few weeks ago I completed my 8-week intensive course at Dominican University’s School of Information Studies. Throughout the course, students shared creative works that surfaced for them. I asked student permission to share a couple of items they offered during the course, and I’d also like to share selected student course evaluations. Student Creativity

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Spring 2025 Course Brief: Critical Hope & Self-Preservation in Contemporary Librarianship – Low-Morale Experience Assessment

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A few weeks into of my eight-week intensive course, Critical Hope and Self-Preservation in Contemporary Librarianship, which is being offered to currently enrolled Dominican University School of Information Studies students (why DU SOIS?), we began exploring concerning practice frameworks in the LIS industry and in library workplaces, and I asked students – many of whom already

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Spring 2025 Course Brief: Critical Hope & Self-Preservation in Contemporary Librarianship – Reflections on Positionality

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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

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Course Brief: Low-Morale Experience Assessment Survey (May 2024)

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This month I’m leading the fourth session of my course, “Deconstructing the Low-Morale Experience in Academic Libraries,” being hosted on the Library Juice Academy platform. We are currently in our third week, and I asked students enrolled in the course to participate in my Low-Morale Experience Assessment Survey, which helps us get an on-the-spot understanding

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Course Brief: BIPOC Low-Morale Experience Assessment Survey (May 2020)

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The inaugural session of my Library Juice Academy course, “Reimagining Workplace Empowerment: Reducing Low Morale for Minority Librarians,” is now in its third week. Students enrolled in the course were asked to participate in a quick Low-Morale Experience Assessment survey so we could get a quick gauge on what the landscape looks like for the cohort.

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