Working Title – ACADEMIC LIBRARIAN BURNOUT: CAUSES AND RESPONSES
Publisher
This book will be published by the Association of College & Research Libraries. The anticipated publication date is 2022.
Overview of Book
The nature of library work and academia have been transformed by forces such as the pace of technological change, reduced budgets, a global pandemic, and shifting understandings of what it means to be a librarian. While these changes have transformed the work of the library, librarians have rushed to adopt, correct, and even challenge changes to tradition. This work has been fueled by a professional mindset that situates librarianship as a vocation and its maintenance requires increasing levels of passion and commitment from everyday librarians. It is, therefore, not surprising that a 2018 survey found that academic librarians in the United States have a work-related Copenhagen Burnout Inventory score of 49.6. In fact, the burnout score of academic librarians in the United States is higher than the burnout score reported by similar helping professions whose members have participated in the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory. Having established a baseline assessment of academic librarian burnout, the authors of that study have returned to examine the nature of academic librarian burnout.
Editors
Christina E. Holm, MLIS
• Instruction Coordinator
• Kennesaw State University Library System
Ana B. Guimaraes, MSLIS
• Director of Collection Development
• Kennesaw State University Library System
Barbara Wood
• Associate Director of Education and Engagement
• Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine Georgia
Proposal Timeline
• Proposals are due October 15, 2020 by 5:00 pm (Pacific Time)
• Authors will be notified of acceptance January 2021
• Full chapters will be due March 2021
• Final chapters will be due September 2021
• Publication is anticipated to take place in either 2022 or 2023
Suggested Topic Areas
Section 1: Burnout typified in librarians
• What causes burnout in the academic librarian?
• Depression vs. burnout
• Generational differences in burnout
• Ethnic differences in burnout
• Burnout-Driven career changes
Section 2: Conditions that cause burnout
• History of librarianship and a shift towards “vocational awe”
• Dysfunctional organizational cultures
• Role of leadership styles
• Institutional inequalities driving burnout
• Precarious position of librarians in academia
Section 3: Individual Responses to Burnout
• Burnout prevention and self-care action plans
• Retirement with a plan
• Working with you is killing me
Section 4: Organizational Responses to Burnout
• What can a manager do?
• Positive leadership in action
• Ethical continuing education for library administrators
• Survey of ethics in MLIS programs
Proposal Guidelines
Chapter proposal submissions will be accepted via Digital Commons:
https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/cfpburnoutbook/
Proposal instructions, important deadlines, the submission template, and other
information may be found by following the link above. Proposed chapters
should be based on unpublished work, unique to this publication, and not
submitted or intended to be simultaneously submitted elsewhere.
Please send inquiries to: cholm1@kennesaw.edu
• Instruction Coordinator
• Kennesaw State University Library System
Ana B. Guimaraes, MSLIS
• Director of Collection Development
• Kennesaw State University Library System
Barbara Wood
• Associate Director of Education and Engagement
• Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine Georgia
Proposal Timeline
• Proposals are due October 15, 2020 by 5:00 pm (Pacific Time)
• Authors will be notified of acceptance January 2021
• Full chapters will be due March 2021
• Final chapters will be due September 2021
• Publication is anticipated to take place in either 2022 or 2023
Suggested Topic Areas
Section 1: Burnout typified in librarians
• What causes burnout in the academic librarian?
• Depression vs. burnout
• Generational differences in burnout
• Ethnic differences in burnout
• Burnout-Driven career changes
Section 2: Conditions that cause burnout
• History of librarianship and a shift towards “vocational awe”
• Dysfunctional organizational cultures
• Role of leadership styles
• Institutional inequalities driving burnout
• Precarious position of librarians in academia
Section 3: Individual Responses to Burnout
• Burnout prevention and self-care action plans
• Retirement with a plan
• Working with you is killing me
Section 4: Organizational Responses to Burnout
• What can a manager do?
• Positive leadership in action
• Ethical continuing education for library administrators
• Survey of ethics in MLIS programs
Proposal Guidelines
Chapter proposal submissions will be accepted via Digital Commons:
https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/cfpburnoutbook/
Proposal instructions, important deadlines, the submission template, and other
information may be found by following the link above. Proposed chapters
should be based on unpublished work, unique to this publication, and not
submitted or intended to be simultaneously submitted elsewhere.
Please send inquiries to: cholm1@kennesaw.edu
