Creating Healthy Library Workplaces (eBook, ePUB)

Five Factors That Improve Employee Engagement and Satisfaction
Redaktion: Martin, Jason

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This practical guide, written from different perspectives and applying to all library types, explains how to create healthy library workplaces.

While library work is often imbued with a strong sense of purpose and mission, it's still work-messy, rewarding, complicated. This book explores the five factors that influence both workplace engagement and job satisfaction for library workers:

· culture and work environment
· leadership
· workload
· recognition
· meaning

Learn how to critically examine these five factors and understand meaningful ways to positively implement them. The expert contributors to this volume represent many types of libraries and points of view, including BIPOC writers and those from other marginalized groups as well as librarians from small and large libraries, rural and urban libraries, and academic, public, and school libraries. This book is written for everyone in a library-leaders, librarians, and other staff can all contribute to making their library a better workplace. Readers will appreciate the hands-on guidance for improving not only the organizational functioning of the library, but the human functioning as well.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216188780
• Artikelnr.: 75833341

Autorenporträt

Jason Martin is the Dean of the Evans Library at Florida Institute of Technology, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Culture and Work Environment 1. Identifying and Addressing Toxic Workplaces in Libraries
Erin DeWitt-Miller (ITHAKA
USA) and Laurel Sammonds Crawford (EBSCO
USA) 2. Just Listen: Using Listening Tours to Improve Workplace Culture
Emily Mross (Pennsylvania State University
USA) and Carmen Cole (Pennsylvania State University
USA) 3. Reinventing Workplace Culture in a Changing Digital Academic Library Environment
Jamie Diermier (National University
USA)
Tammy Ivins (National University
USA)
Stephanie Johnson (National University
USA)
and Laura Thompson (National University
USA) 4. Patron-Perpetrated Sexual Harassment: Is There an End? Olivia Radbill (South Pasadena Library
USA) 5. Answering the Identity Questions: The Struggles of Library Workers to Be Themselves at Work
Darin Freeburg (University of South Carolina
USA) 6. Creating an Inclusive Work Environment for Ethnically and Culturally Diverse Staff in Your Library
Jameka Lewis (University of Denver
USA) 7. From Hire to Welcome: A Comprehensive Approach to Inclusive Onboarding
Tarida Anantachai (North Carolina State University
USA)
Robin Davis (North Carolina State University
USA)
Adebola Fabiku (North Carolina State University
USA)
and Nellie Maurer (North Carolina State University
USA) 8. Seeking Affinity: Fostering Spaces for Asian American
Native Hawaiian
and Pacific Islander Peers in Libraries
Jeanie Pai (New York Public Library
USA) and Miriam Tuliao (Penguin Random House
USA) Part 2: Leadership 9. The Reflexive Library Leader
Julia Davis (Smith
Hulsey
and Busey
USA) 10. A Foundation Built on Trust: Psychological Safety in Library Supervisor-Employee Relationships
Laura Thompson (National University
USA)
Tammy Ivins (National University
USA)
Jamie Diermier (National University
USA)
and Stephanie Johnson (National University
USA) 11. Deep Listening: A Key to Unlocking Leadership Responsiveness and Fostering a Healthy Workplace
Jennifer McKinnell (McMaster University
Canada) 12. Healing with Trauma-Informed Leadership
Lauren Slingluff (University of New Haven
USA) 13. How Academic Library Leaders Can Positively Influence Librarian Retention
Amy F. Fyn (Eastern Michigan University
USA) and Amanda Foster Kaufman (Wake Forest University
USA) Part 3: Workload and Work Expectations 14. Slow Librarianship and Slow Productivity: Complementary Approaches to Sustainable Work
Julie Tedjeske Crane (Pennsylvania State University
USA) 15. Job Control and Librarian Engagement: Considerations of Workplace Agency for Crafting Meaningful Work Experiences
Matthew Weirick Johnson (University of South Florida
USA) 16. Crafting Professional Standards: Navigating Ambiguity in Library Environments
LaCharmine Jefferson (Wayne State University
USA) and Katie Perry (California State University
USA) 17. A Collaborative and Equitable Approach to Managing Your Team's Workload
Ashley Riordan (The Claremont Colleges
USA)
Elizabeth Galoozis (University of California - Irvine
USA)
and Kendra Macomber (Colorado State University
USA) 18. Support in All the Right Places: An Empathic Approach to Tenure
Katherine Hanz (McGill University
Canada) and Sandy Hervieux (McGill University
Canada) 19. Incorporating Neurodivergent Workplace Adjustments to Reduce Burnout in the Library Setting: Disrupting the American Obsession with Work
Maggie Albro (University of Tennessee
USA) and Niki Cobb (University of Tennessee
USA) Part 4: Recognition 20. Eye on the Prize: Leveraging the Power of Recognition to Create a More Successful and Fulfilling Workplace
Megan Gilpin (Pennsylvania State University - University Park
USA) 21. Leading From Where You Are: Taking Ownership in Improving Departmental Culture
Cara M. Calabrese (Miami University
USA) and Masha L. Stepanova (Ohio State University
USA) Part 5: Meaning 22. Beyond "Follow Your Passion": Cultivating Meaning and Purpose in Library Work
Julie Tedjeske Crane (Pennsylvania State University
USA) 23. Feeling Imposter Syndrome and Burnout? Time to Burn It Down and Get Back to Basics
Jordan Ruud (University of Arkansas
USA) and Jason D. Phillips (University of Central Florida
USA) Index