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Recorded: Workplace Chronicles Podcast – ASERL (September 2026)

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Earlier this year, Elaina Norlin invited me to be a guest on the Workplace Chronicles podcast (presented by the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries). Our conversation focused on my low-morale experience studies and also went further into how I’ve been: considering and supporting low-morale experience recovery and healing; leveraging coaching skills to support library workers […]

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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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Reserved: Various (September & October 2026)

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As fall arrives and settles in, I’ll be speaking at several events! September 17 | Oberlin Group of Libraries Annual Meeting (Colorado Springs, Colorado) October 8 | 2026 Minnesota Library Association Conference (this year’s event is virtual – check out the schedule) October 19 | 2026 Virginia Library Association Conference (Norfolk, Virginia). See the program.

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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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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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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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Employee Success, Interrupted: Recognizing GOTCHA Workplaces, Part 2

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While reviewing data I’ve received during participant interviews for my low-morale experience studies and from respondents to my ongoing data collection projects, I’ve noticed recurring acts that interrupt employee success and engagement. As I categorized them in groups, I eventually placed them under the broad concept of what I call GOTCHA Culture: workplace environments characterized

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Employee Success, Interrupted: Recognizing GOTCHA Workplaces, Part 1

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[A] newly promoted assistant manager, chosen by my most recent predecessor who stepped down but was still in the department, often told our shared staff that they should trust me, then proceeded to undermine me by giving them an outlet to complain about me instead of engaging me in conversation. – Respondent, Legacy Toxicity in

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