Ashleigh Coren, an archivist, summarizes the issues of emotional labor in LIS and in particular, the work of PoC archivists. She makes a case for finding joy and shares her canvassing of colleagues on how they find and practice joy in their careers even while recognizing the real problems of workplace and professional marginalization in
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In his article, “Einige Anmerkungen zur Stimmung des Personals am Arbeitsplatz Bibliothek” (“Some comments on the staff mood in the library workplace”), Dr. Karsten Schuldt, a researcher at the Swiss Institute for Information Science (HTW Chur), summarized three scenarios that cause negative moods to develop in library employees: Denial of workplace issues or access/employee problems by
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The Digital Libraries Federation (DLF) has a Working Group (WG) on Labor in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums. The WG’s sub-group, Valuing Labor, met in Fall of 2017 and discussed several aspects of their charge, including faculty status of librarians, Workplace climate tools, Student employees, Impacts of strategic planning on employees, and Labor right-sizing The
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Earlier this year, Amanda Leftwich presented a short talk at the PoCinLIS Summit at Loyola Marymount University. Her presentation summarizes the six dimensions of wellness, barriers to workplace wellness for people of color (particularly women), and offers a new model for PoC Librarians to respond to such barriers. View the presentation.
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The Society of American Archivists’ Issues & Advocacy Section crafted a blogpost covering labor models for archival work. The post covers recent literature linking affect and library work; it summarily applies such literature to the environment of archives and in particular, temporary employment in that field. Read more.
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Dr. Donna Lanclos, an anthropologist who has done (and continues to do) amazing work in LIS, gave a talk at the University of London’s Goldsmith Library. https://twitter.com/DonnaLanclos/status/1013042643687833601 She summarizes her talk here; her discussion centers on the (un-)usefulness of the term “diversity” in LIS-related initiatives and how such initiatives are subsumed or crippled by Whiteness,
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While preparing for my recent trip to Canada, I found out that my low-morale study is mentioned in the Canadian Health Librarianship Wiki. Just a small blurb – the succinct definition of low morale. http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php/Bullying_behaviours_in_the_workplace
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Academic librarian and blogger La Loria Konata reflects on my low-morale study’s discussion of trigger events, maps it to the Dallas Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones’ sudden reversal on his – and his players’ – political activities, and considers the fallout. Click the image to read.
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