academic librarians

Report: ASERL BIPOC Leadership Development Mini-Conference (July 2023)

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Late last month I offered a Renewals Seminar/Keynote at the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries’ 2nd BIPOC Leadership Development Mini-Conference. The event was hosted at Georgia Institute of Technology’s stunning Price Gilbert Memorial Library. Following is selected data from attendees. Professional Demographics and Learning Goals 20% Access Services 50% 10 or more years of service …

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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).

Report Update: How Deauthentication Impacts BIPOC Academic Librarians’ Library Practice (February 2022)

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This report offers an update of the qualitative data in my open survey focusing on the impact factor of deauthentication,“a cognitive process that People of Color (PoC) traverse to prepare for or navigate predominantly White workplace environments, resulting in decisions that hide or reduce aspects of the influence of their ethnic, racial, or cultural identity,  and  …

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Report Update: Barriers to Authenticity for BIPOC Academic Librarians (February 2022)

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This update offers more qualitative data offered by respondents to my ongoing survey on deauthenticity – please participate if this topic resonates with you; and you can review earlier data here. For review, deauthentication is “a cognitive process that People of Color (PoC) traverse to prepare for or navigate predominantly White workplace environments, resulting in …

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Report Update: Academic Library Low Morale Spot-Check Survey Results (January 2022)

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Since 2018, I’ve been gathering and reporting information on the up-t0-the-moment concerns academic librarians have been considering during their low-morale experiences (you may review previous reports here, here, and here). A secondary purpose of this data collection project is to offer people a place to share anonymously their immediate concerns about their low-morale experience or …

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Impact Factors & Enabling Systems

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The low-morale experience is one that moves through several stages, starting with a trigger event, moving forward to long-term exposure to instances of abuse and neglect, and then hopefully, successful resolution or mitigation. While the experience is launched by individual behaviors, it is also influenced and further propelled by external or internal factors and wide-spread …

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Ongoing Low Morale Data Collection

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I’ve been studying the development and impact of low-morale experiences since 2016, and my work also includes data collection for kaleidoscopic aspects of this phenomenon. From people’s encounters with workplace abuse and neglect to dealing with the impacts of the experience while looking for work – or even how the experience has been influenced by …

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Renewals Reach: Academic freedom

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Leebaw and Logsdon delve into academic librarians’ perceptions of and experiences with academic freedom protections, making links to faculty status protections and their effectiveness when librarians are challenged.  When looking at perceptions of punishment, they found that librarians’ responses had “there is significant overlap in both experiences and impacts.” Read the article.

Report: The Renewal Seminar at the ALAO 2020 Virtual Conference (October 2020)

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Late last month I facilitated The Renewal Seminar at the Academic Library Association of Ohio’s (ALAO) 2020 Virtual Conference. I’m honored that ALAO invited me to lead this session with our academic library colleagues. Seventeen people attended the Seminar, representing a range of specialties. Seminar attendees are offered an opportunity to take two surveys:  Pre-Seminar Questionnaire (basic …

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Renewals Reach: Reducing burnout in Communities of Practice

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Brown and Settoducato summarize the points of their LOEX workshop, sharing the context and challenges that predicated their need to address burnout in their organization. They discuss ideas of self-care, contextualize the influences of vocational awe and neoliberalism on burnout, and briefly share some countermeasures they enacted at their organization. The 2017 low morale study …

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