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Data Collection Brief Update: Low Morale and COVID-19, Part 2 (March 2020)

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This is the second of a two-part report summarizing the latest results of my ongoing survey on the impact of COVID-19 on ongoing low-morale experiences (UPDATE: This Data Collection Project is now closed. Request the final report). This second part centers qualitative data. Please view the first part focusing on quantitative data. Please share your […]

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Data Collection Brief Update: Low Morale and COVID-19, Part 1 (March 2020)

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It’s been about two weeks since I launched my survey tracking COVID-19’s (Novel Coronavirus) impact on ongoing low-morale experiences. Check this Tweet thread for nascent results, which reflected all participants at that time (n=46). (UPDATE: This Data Collection Project is now closed. Request the final report). This study focuses on people who were already dealing

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Early Data Collection Brief: Low-Morale Experiences and COVID-19 (March 2020)

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Earlier this evening I created and distributed an informal survey documenting if and how library responses to the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) are impacting ongoing low-morale experiences. For expediency’s sake, I tweeted the survey’s nascent results. Future summaries of this survey data will be reported here at Renewals. The survey will remain open during the U.S. National

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Data Collection Brief Update: Academic Library Low Morale Spot-Check Survey Results (March 2020)

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In 2018, I shared the initial results of my quick survey on low-morale concerns and experiences. The goal of the survey is to keep on-the-pulse on what’s going on with people who are currently experiencing low morale, and to offer people a place to share anonymously their immediate concerns about their low-morale experience or offer

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Data Collection Brief: Public Libraries Low Morale Spot-Check (October 2019)

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Soon after presenting my work on low morale in academic libraries, public librarians began sharing their experiences with me. I decided to expand my work to this group of information professionals, and last year I received a grant to complete that study. recently completed my draft , and I hope will be published next year. 

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Data Collection Brief: Share Your Story Results (September 2019)

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Since April 2018, I have been collecting stories of low-morale experiences from library employees from all kinds of libraries. The project, called “Share Your Story,” allows people a space to write down as much (or as little) about their most impactful incidents of workplace abuse and neglect as they want to; additionally, they are able

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Report Update: Deauthentication Survey Results (June 2019)

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[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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Report: Barriers to Authenticity for PoC Academic Librarians (May 2019)

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[This content was originally published on May 20, 2019 at The Ink On The Page.] This is the second of two blogposts sharing some of the qualitative data offered by respondents to my ongoing survey on deauthenticity in racial and ethnic minority academic librarians (read the initial qualitative report on deauthentication and library practice impacts

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Data Collection Brief: How Deauthentication Impacts PoC Academic Librarians’ Library Practice (May 2019)

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[This content was originally published on May 14, 2019 at The Ink On The Page.] After sharing my thoughts on the theme of deauthenticity that arose in my PoC academic librarian low-morale study data, I created a quick survey and reported the initial results via TIOTP last June.  As a review, deauthentication is defined as “a cognitive process

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Tweet-dux: Stereotype Threat and Deauthenticity in the PoC Low-Morale Experience

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[This content was originally published on February 18, 2019 at The Ink On The Page.] On Twitter, I’ve been threading some results of my latest low morale study (done with Ione Damasco), which centers the experience of racial and ethnic minority academic librarians. It is my hope that this work will bring into clearer view the additional

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