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Data Collection Brief Update: Low Morale and COVID-19, Part 1 (November 2021)

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The following report reflects my goal to continue sharing data from my ongoing survey exploring how COVID-19 has impacted library employees who were already dealing with low-morale before the development of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. My last general quantitative and qualitative reports were offered in September 2020. Here are the quantitative results as […]

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Low Morale Frameworks

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While the low-morale experience is a unique phenomenon, it can be housed within several frameworks, some of which are distinctive to helping professions like librarianship, and others that are found in the general workforce.  Ambiguous Loss – a loss that occurs without a significant likelihood of reaching emotional closure or a clear understanding. (Boss 2000; See Also, low

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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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#RecommendedReading

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Title: The state of academic liaison librarian burnout in ARL Libraries in the United States. Author: Jennifer Nardine. ABSTRACT: This study investigates the incidence and acuteness of occupational burnout in full-time Association of Research Libraries (ARL) liaison/subject librarians in the United States, using the Maslach Burnout Inventory and Areas of Worklife Survey. Findings show that lack of personal

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Renewals Reach: Fighting bullshit in academic libraries

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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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Renewals Reach: Design thinking and burnout prevention in academic libraries

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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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Renewals Reach: Burnout beginnings in LIS

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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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From the May 2019 Course: Suggested Readings from Students

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This post is the first of a two-part series of items I’m sharing from the second session of my course, “Deconstructing the Low-Morale Experience in Academic Libraries,” which was offered via Library Juice Academy in May 2019. Throughout the course, students shared readings that are helping them change their work culture or better understand issues

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From the October 2018 Course: Suggested Readings from Students

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This post is the third part of a four-part series of items I’m sharing from the first session of my course, “Deconstructing the Low-Morale Experience in Academic Libraries,” which was offered via Library Juice Academy in October 2018. (see Part 1, Part 2) Throughout the course, students shared readings that are helping them change their

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