Just last week I offered a keynote at the 2025 Library Marketing and Communications Conference (LMCC 2025). While it took place in-person in St. Louis, Missouri, just steps from the Gateway Arch, late-breaking Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) flight reductions connected to the Federal goverment shutdown (along with unexpected caregiving duties) interrupted my planned trip to […]
In late July, the Orbis Cascade Alliance held its annual Alliance Connections event – a three-day virtual professional development conference with plenty of opportunities to learn and meet with affinity practice groups in Orbis Library Alliance’s service/membership area. I was invited to offer a non-concurrent session on the second day – a one-hour keynote I
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Last month, the British Columbia Library Association (BCLA) hosted the first of two Renewals Colloquia to registered attendees. During the 90-minute event, over 100 folks explored aspects of low-morale experiences for public and academic library workers, as well as differentiation for formal library leaders. Before the Colloquium Renewals Colloquium attendees are offered some pre-work that
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Just under a month ago, Library Juice Academy hosted a free webinar that I led, titled “Callings, Crises, & Community: Considering Critical Hope in 21st-Century Librarianship.” Over 100 folks registered for the free hour-long event, which introduced Critical Hope practice and gave space to think about how Critical Hope can be applied in librarianship and
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On June 18, 2025, Renewals hosted our inaugural Reset Experience. Announced on June 4, 2025, the complimentary online community-building event garnered over 200 registered attendees. Together, we explored recovery from library workplace harm through focused conversations from curated speakers, strategy identification, and most importantly, time to practice with tools created or offered by the facilitators.
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In late May, I offered The Renewals Presentation to Reaching Across Illinois Library System – a consortium of academic, public, school, and special libraries in north and west-central Illinois. The event was extended, moving beyond the usual hour-long presentation into 75-minutes so folks could have a bit more time for questions. During the Presentation The
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In Fall 2024, I was invited to speak at the Largo Public Libary’s Staff Day – but Hurricane Milton had other plans. On the originally scheduled date, Milton blew through Largo, rendering so much damage that the Library was designated as a Disaster Recovery Center for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). For the next
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In August 2024 I began my role as 2024-2025 Follett Chair with the Dominican University School of Information Studies (DU SOIS). As part of my collaboration with DU SOIS, in October I offered a two-part presentation series sharing information about my low-morale experience research. The talks were open to the public through registration to the virtual
Early this month I collaborated with the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI)’s Professional Development Alliance and led an online session of The Renewals Colloquium I’m sharing some data collected during the event, as well as attendee feedback shared after the 90-minute event, which had over 200 registrants and an over 50%
This week I offered a keynote for the University of Indonesia Library’s International Webinar Series, “Addressing Low Morale in Library and Information Workplace.” The event also included a keynote on burnout led by Ezra Putranto Wahyudi (M, Psi). Mr. Wahyudi is an Adult Clinical Psychologist and a Faculty member at the University of Indonesia. Over
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