Caelin Ross’ reflection on navigating White fragility and confronting/navigating accountability while facilitating in decolonized contexts reveals vulnerability and resonance – and is soundly situated within the realm of Critical Hope principles and praxis. The Case Ross details the deep work she and Indigenous co-facilitator Vina Begay did to prepare for and offer a workshop on […]
Imagining the application of beneficence requires exploration of some hard truths in our profession and industry…How might we harness beneficence as a foundational element of our practice, even while we are bombarded with increasing contempt for empathy and compassion? I’ve written a short article sharing my nascent ideas on the principle of Beneficence and how
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Earlier this year while reviewing early results of my Leaving the Low-Morale Experience Organization: Treatment During Resignation Periods Data Collection Project, several qualitative data from respondents reminded me of the role of narcissism in workplace harm – and even further, I wondered “can organizations be narcissistic???” Yes. Yes, they can. When Tracy L. Pizzi (co-collaborator
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[This content was originally published on October 15, 2018 at The Ink On The Page.] While analyzing data for my PoC academic librarians low morale study, I came across behaviors that seemed to fall under the realm of oppressed group behavior (OGB) – known more colloquially as “eating one’s young” the “one” being the profession and the
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[This content was originally published on May 21, 2018 at The Ink On The Page.] One of my first published works focused on racial and ethnic minority matters and history in LIS; since then, my work has expanded to include other issues of professionalism, including ethics, librarian roles, and identity. Regardless of this shift, I
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[This content was originally published on February 5, 2018 at The Ink On The Page.] “Authenticity is defined as the sharing of self by relating in a natural, sincere, spontaneous, open, and genuine manner. Being authentic, or genuine, involves relating personally so that expressions are spontaneous rather than contrived.” (Hepworth 2010, p. 107). In my study
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