Thriving as a mid-career librarian : identity, advocacy, and pathways /

Mid-career librarianship looks different for everyone. Maybe you’ve worked in libraries for ten years, or you’re halfway to retirement. Maybe you’ve reached the highest level of a hierarchy you care to reach. Most of the literature about mid-career librarianship tends to focus on advancing to leader...

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Other Authors: West, Brandon (Editor), Galoozis, Elizabeth (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : Association of College and Research Libraries, [2023].
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Summary:Mid-career librarianship looks different for everyone. Maybe you’ve worked in libraries for ten years, or you’re halfway to retirement. Maybe you’ve reached the highest level of a hierarchy you care to reach. Most of the literature about mid-career librarianship tends to focus on advancing to leadership or administration, but many of us are more concerned with how to continue to grow professionally without moving upward, how to make decisions about staying in an institution (or the profession), sustaining yourself amid burnout, constant change, wage compression or even boredom and navigating cultures of white supremacy, patriarchy and hierarchy. Thriving as a Mid-Career Librarian collects the experiences of mid-career librarians as they grapple with these questions and the roles that marginalized perspectives, intersectionality and privilege have played in their careers. ? Chapters explore maintaining engagement and avoiding burnout, informal mentorships, the doctorate, union stewardship, addressing incivility, post-tenure fatigue, balancing ambition, personal fulfillment and life and much more. It can feel like everything gets harder, more political and further under-resourced with each passing year. Thriving as a Mid-Career Librarian offers strategies of community, support and advocacy that can help make it possible for us to thrive and help others to thrive. At mid-career, we may not have the same bright-eyed enthusiasm we possessed as new information professionals, but we have other things: the contributions we make to our communities and the wealth of experience we have built up since those days.
Physical Description:xi, 345 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:0838939414
9780838939413