For the past two months, I have been working diligently to analyze participant data from my public librarian low morale study. Again, the results have validated the causes and general development and trajectory of low morale; however, the data also reveal that public librarians have more Enabling Systems (ES) to deal with as they […]
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I have a lot of anger about the way that she has been treating me through this period. Um…and that is not conducive to my best work. But if I don’t do my best work, I know she’s just going to come down on me harder. – Low morale study participant (Male, acquisitions librarian) …[I]t
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[This content was originally published on July 2, 2018 at The Ink On The Page.] If you’re following this blog – or my work in general – you’re aware that I’m currently working on data analysis for my PoC Low Morale study. After I closed the interview phase, I asked my colleague (and friend) Ione Damasco
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[U]nbeknownst to myself, I was blaming, you know, the library I worked in, and all the co-workers, and the college, and the drive to work, and the students, you know, all of this, and it was really, honestly, just [my abuser]. – Female public services librarian (Participant, Academic Librarian Low-Morale Experience study) [The emotional abuse I
I tried to please as best as I could, you know? Knowing full well, though, that no matter what I did, it would never, it would never be enough, you know? …I would be anxious about, you know, making sure that all my bases were covered, all my I’s were dotted and all my T’s
[This content was originally published on December 4, 2017 at The Ink On The Page.] As a lurking/functional member of social media society, I have recently come across several threads in closed and open LIS online communities that prompt the following thought: Librarians need assertive communication training. I remember in library school, classroom conversations about applying
While waiting for my study to complete the peer-review process, I created infographics for some of the study’s results. You may use or share them according to their Creative Commons licenses.
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[This post republishes a significant amount of content originally published on January 22, 2018 at The Ink On The Page] After publishing my low morale study, I came across Fobazi Ettarh’s online discussion of what she coined vocational awe: Well simply put, it is the idea that libraries as institutions are inherently good. It assumes that some or all
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[This content was originally published on November 14, 2017 at The Ink On The Page.] I’ve read my low-morale study (and the qualitative data associated with it) several times since its submission and publication. One thing that I’d like to take a closer look at is the link between the cognitive impact of perfectionism and
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[This content was originally published on November 6, 2017 at The Ink On The Page.] A few days ago, my latest article – “The low morale experience of academic librarians: A phenomenological study” – was assigned to its Journal of Library Administration (JLA) issue after being in pre-print for a bit over seven weeks. During the pre-print
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