Screen LibraryAcademic librarian burnout : causes and responses /
"Librarianship has been conceptualized as a vocation or calling--rather than a profession--since the 1800s. Within this historical context, librarians are encouraged to think of ourselves as possessing a natural disposition to showing perpetual engagement, enthusiasm, and self-regulation in pur...
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Association of College and Research Libraries,
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| Publisher Address: | Chicago, Illinois : |
| Publication Dates: | 2022. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"Librarianship has been conceptualized as a vocation or calling--rather than a profession--since the 1800s. Within this historical context, librarians are encouraged to think of ourselves as possessing a natural disposition to showing perpetual engagement, enthusiasm, and self-regulation in pursuit of our shared vocation. These assumptions about the profession can sometimes shield us from introspective criticism, but they can also prevent us from recognizing and managing the systemic occupational issues that afflict us. Academic Librarian Burnout can help librarians develop the agency to challenge the assumptions and practices that have led to so much professional burnout. In five thorough parts, it offers ways to discuss burnout in our work environments, studies burnout's nature and causes, and provides preventative intervention and mitigation strategies: Reframing Burnout; Conditions that Promote Burnout; Lived Experiences; Individual Responses to Burnout; and Organizational Responses to Burnout. Chapters explore the relationship of burnout in academic libraries and illness, intersectionality, workload, managerial approaches, and more, while offering real-life stories and ways for both individuals and organizations to address the symptoms and causes of burnout. The emotional, physical, and mental investment we require of librarianship--to go above and beyond to serve the ever--evolving needs of our patrons while perennially justifying our existence to library stakeholders-can come at the expense of our well-being. Academic Librarian Burnout addresses unsustainable work environments and preserves and celebrates the unique contributions of librarians."-- |
| Carrier Form: | xxi, 376 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9780838948569 0838948561 |
| Index Number: | Z682 |
| CLC: |
G258.5 G251.6 |
| Call Number: | G251.6/A168-1 |
| Contents: |
X, Y, Zzzzzz: generational differences in academic librarian burnout / Burnout and chronic illness in academic libraries / "I just feel like I'm not doing enough": experiences of feminist library leaders / What's in a workload? Affect, burnout, and complicating capacity in academic librarians / Distinguishing depression from burnout: implications for impactful interventions for long-term improvement / "I can't keep doing this": contingent labor and its impact on archivists / Where burnout and leadership intersect: implications from, and for, academic library (and other higher education) stakeholders / Burning the candle at both ends: how and why academic librarians who are parents experience and combat burnout at work / The effect of dysfunctional organizational culture on burnout in academic libraries / Coworker-induced burnout: firsthand accounts of the impacts of colleagues' behavior on academic librarians' and archivists' well-being / To err is human: academic librarians and the fear of making mistakes / Publish or perish: conditional burnout for tenure-track faculty librarians / Professional service expectations: causes and prevention of librarian burnout / Intersectionality, ICD-11, and black women librarians in the midst of a pandemic / Is it burnout or mental illness? Searching for understanding when the answer is "both" / Radical empathy and the managerial ethic of care / |