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Renewals Reach: Stress measures for tenure track librarians

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Cameron, Pierce, and Conroy’s study centers tenure-track academic librarians and measures work-stress levels and connections to organizational support systems. The report validates links between lack of support and employee stress, and offers an interesting finding regarding connections between professional confidence and stress. Their work cites the 2017 low morale study. Access the article (possible paywall).

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Renewals Reach: Library bureaucracy and Critical Race Theory

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Nataraj, Hampton, Matlin, and Meulemans discuss cites librarianship as bureaucracy and its overreliance on traditionally structured work practices, which are perceived as neutral but instead reinforce the Whiteness of the LIS field. The authors apply Critical Race Theory (CRT) to surface how bureaucratic practices negatively impact Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) who work

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Renewals Reach: Well-being, games, and burnout

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Citing high burnout rates in health sciences librarians, authors Casucci, Locke, Henson, and Qeadan designed and implemented a “Wellness Game” to intervene. The article details aspects of the game, along with qualitative participant responses helpful for future iterations. The 2017 low morale study is mentioned with regard to factors – including leadership – that can

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Renewals Reach: Advocacy in middle management

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Miller-Waltz, Hudson-Vitale, and Borrelli’s recorded Conference on Academic Library Management (CALM) Conference presentation shares the development and outcomes of a major physical revonation at their library and the associated challenges of the process. Employee reactions included those consistent with low morale; and the presenters, who are middle managers, noted the original 2017 low morale study

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Renewals Reach: Civility Exercise at Colorado State Library

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The Colorado State Library hosted a session titled “How Rude! The Price of Incivility in the Workplace,” led by Jean Heilig and Christine Kreger. Along with the course is a short exercise on recognizing and integrating civility in workplaces. This website and Renewer’s Facebook Community are included in the resources list.  Review the exercises.

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Renewals Reach: supervisor impact on morale

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Kennedy and Garewal offer quantitative support to the role of formal leaders – in this case, supervisors – on academic librarian morale. Their objectives include gathering a quantitative foundation for measuring academic librarians’ workplace morale and analyzing variables that intersect with academic librarian morale and what supervisors influence. The study finds links between morale and

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Renewals Reach: Low Morale, Transmuted Into Sound

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Mimi Stockton, a student at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill School of Library and Information Science (UNC-CH SLIS), has created a digital scholarship project Titled, “Sounds of Low Morale: An Analysis of the Demoralizing Experiences of Librarians and Their Triggers Through Sound.” Using quantitative and qualitative data reported in my published Public

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Renewals Reach: Contemplative library practice

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Duffy, Rose-Wiles, and Loesch offer an overview of contemplative practice in academia and apply the concept to information literacy/library instruction and pedagogical practice in academic libraries. The authors share their experiences introducing contemplative practice in their organization’s program as a channel to reducing stress and burnout on colleagues, students, and teaching faculty. Access the article

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Renewals Reach: Critical librarianship at work

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Feretti discusses the development of critical librarianship. particularly as it relates to information literacy pedagogy, while recognizing that the development of critical libraianship in the literature and in the library instruction classroom has not been reflected in library colleagues’ daily interactions. As such, Ferretti argues that contemporary critical librarianship feels performative.  The original low morale

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