Considering: Oppressed Group Behavior

[This content was originally published on October 15, 2018 at The Ink On The Page.] While analyzing data for my PoC academic librarians low morale study, I came across behaviors that seemed to fall under the realm of oppressed group behavior (OGB) – known more colloquially as “eating one’s young” the “one” being the profession and theContinue reading “Considering: Oppressed Group Behavior”

Can We Talk?

[This content was originally published on December 4, 2017 at The Ink On The Page.] As a lurking/functional member of social media society, I have recently come across several threads in closed and open LIS online communities that prompt the following thought: Librarians need assertive communication training.  I remember in library school, classroom conversations about applyingContinue reading “Can We Talk?”