LibVoices hosts Amanda M. Leftwich, Jamia Williams, and Jamillah R. Gabriel interviewed me about how I decided to become a librarian. I also share ideas about the implementation of equity, diversity, and inclusion values, work-life balance, and how ego helps workplace abuse and neglect continue. “Wants keep you stuck. They are a part of self-supposition: …
The inaugural session of my Library Juice Academy course, “Reimagining Workplace Empowerment: Reducing Low Morale for Minority Librarians,” is now in its third week. Students enrolled in the course were asked to participate in a quick Low-Morale Experience Assessment survey so we could get a quick gauge on what the landscape looks like for the cohort. …
Report: BIPOC Low-Morale Experience Assessment Survey (May 2020) Read More »
Late last month I shared quantitative and qualitative results of my ongoing survey on the impact of COVID-19 on low-morale experiences. As a follow-up – and to support the data I shared during this month’s two BIPOC in LIS Mental Health Summits – I am revisiting the data to highlight the responses and experiences of …
Report: BIPOC, Low Morale, & COVID-19 (April 2020) Read More »
The Southeast Collaborative Online Conference organizers invited me to present for their inaugural virtual conference. The group includes the state libraries of Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. This webinar offers a review of low morale and shares data from all three of my low morale studies (the published study on academic librarians, the …
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I’m elated to announce that my partnership with Library Juice Academy has expanded to offer my new course, “Reimagining Workplace Empowerment: Reducing Low Morale for Racial and Ethnic Minority Librarians.” The four-week intensive, asynchronous course starts in May and centers my second low morale study on racial and ethnic minority academic librarians (co-authored with Ione T. Damasco, …
Introducing: A Low Morale Course for Racial and Ethnic Minority Librarians Read More »
My low morale study centering ethnic and racial academic librarians, which was co-authored with Ione T. Damasco (University of Dayton), has been published in a special issue of Library Trends. The study, titled “Low morale in ethnic and racial minority academic librarians: An experiential study,” can be found on page 174 in volume 68, no.2. UPDATE …
Published: Ethnic & Racial Minority Academic Librarians Study Read More »
The 2017 low morale study and a presentation focusing on the Diversity Rhetoric Enabling System (connected to the low-morale experience for racial/ethnic minority academic librarians) is cited in a new book edited by Lorelei Rutledge, Jay L. Colbert, Anastasia Chiu, and Jason Alston. These editors have had direct experience with residencies designed to address persistent racial …
Dr. Nicole A. Cooke continues her discussion of and personal challenges facing experiences of workplace abuse and neglect as an African-American Library and Information Science (LIS) faculty member educator. She cites the 2017 low morale study while noting the coverage of workplace abuse and neglect in academic librarianship. She continues her counter-narrative, sharing a trajectory …
[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 the …
Library Journal’s Deimosa Webber-Rey interviewed me about the low morale study focusing on racial and ethnic minority academic librarians. In the article, I discuss the specific impact factors that affect this group as they traverse the low-morale experience and share my ongoing concerns about the study’s data. Read more. You can also read my 2020 …