In a succinct poster, Amanda B. Albert expands on Jane Schmidt’s definition of bullshit: “something that doesn’t really mean anything, but sounds totally legit; so we don’t ask too many questions, go along with it, and carry on.” and summarizes how these characteristics show up in LIS values, philosophy, and practice. The original low morale
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Ashley Roach-Freiman shares best practices she learned as she planned and implemented a design thinking approach to manage change and conceptualize and implement strategic planning at her academic library. The 2017 low morale study, along with burnout and other negative workplace phenomena, was mentioned. The approach – and planning in general – was applied as
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Jade Geary and Brittany Hickey reveal the goals, methodology, and results of a unique study focusing on the relationship between working in libraries while pursing an MLIS (or equivalent) in graduate school and the development of burnout once “formal” library work is obtained. the 2017 low morale study is mentioned for positing burnout as a
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The 2017 low morale study and a presentation focusing on the Diversity Rhetoric Enabling System (connected to the low-morale experience for racial/ethnic minority academic librarians) is cited in a new book edited by Lorelei Rutledge, Jay L. Colbert, Anastasia Chiu, and Jason Alston. These editors have had direct experience with residencies designed to address persistent racial
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Dr. Nicole A. Cooke continues her discussion of and personal challenges facing experiences of workplace abuse and neglect as an African-American Library and Information Science (LIS) faculty member educator. She cites the 2017 low morale study while noting the coverage of workplace abuse and neglect in academic librarianship. She continues her counter-narrative, sharing a trajectory
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Ruth Kitchin Tillman has shared an intensely observational authoethnography of the challenges of repository work. Her piece starkly illuminates the affective impacts and practice outcomes of working with technology platforms that are constantly changing while trying to manage the professional (and also emotional) expectations of stakeholders invested in repository functionalities and the collections/objects they are
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In November 2018, Melanie Cassidy, Ali Versluis, and Erin Menzies hosted a roundtable at the Critical Librarianship & Pedagogy Symposium (University of Arizona). Their discussion, titled “Disrupting traditional power structures in academic libraries: Saying no, how to do it, and why it matters,”centers the framework of resilience narratives and how they are used against librarians
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Aaisha Haykal deftly intertwines gaps and biases of historical record-keeping and preservation and the work that should (and continues to be) done to correct such gaps and oversights. She links these ideas to a summary of sessions presented at the 2018 Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting and injects established research into how archivists can
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The 2017 low morale study was mentioned as a resource in Mirza and Currier’s Digital Libraries Forum presentation, “Towards a praxis of library documentation.” The information was shared last October. The study is noted in connection to their discussion of the American Library Association’s Code of Ethics, specifically, Principles V and VIII, which focus on
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Shira Peltzman and her co-authors deftly summarize their research focusing on how digital preservation initiatives and oversight evolve over time. They note there is “increasing dissatisfaction among stewards with the way that digital preservation is organized at their respective institutions,” and continue the summation of their impetus and scholarly effort (a qualitative study) to find
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