Libraries As Dysfunctional Organizations And Workplaces

EBook 2023

"Libraries as Dysfunctional Organizations and Workplaces expands the 'dysfunctional' concept in the professional and academic LIS discourse by exposing the internal problematics of libraries, especially at the social and organizational level. Including contributions written by LIS professionals and scholars, the book demonstrates that although many libraries do well at attending to users and managing external information they often fail at taking...

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Communication in library administration

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Library personnel management United States

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ISBN:

9781000798814

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Electronic reproduction. Abingdon Taylor and Francis 2022 Available via World Wide Web

Contents:

An Introduction to Dysfunction in the Library Workplace / Spencer Acadia and Kyndal Vogt
The Dysfunctional Library and Academic Librarian Turnover / Amanda Foster Kaufman, Amy F. Fyn, Millicent Weber and Christina Heady
Improving Dysfunctional Recruitment and Retention in Academic Libraries by Honoring the Whole Person / Erica Lopez
Precarity Doesn't Care: Precarious Employment as a Dysfunctional Practice in Libraries / Adena Brons, Chloe Riley, Ean Henninger and Crystal Yin
Discrimination as Dysfunction: Why do Libraries Have a Problem with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion? / Briana Zaragoza and T. Gonzalez
Workplace Dysfunction and Intellectual Freedom in Public Libraries / Miranda Doran-Myers and Crystal Schimpf
The Saboteur in the Academic Library / Kate Dohe, Celia Emmelhainz, Maura Seale and Erin Pappas
'Put the Fucking Salary in the Job Ad!': An Analysis of an Anonymous Corpus of Tweets / Tim Ribaric
You are Seen: An Analysis of Library Dysfunction Found in Online Memes / Éthel Gamache and Spencer Acadia
A Descriptive Study of Workplace Bullying in U.S. Libraries during the COVID-19 Pandemic / Carol Anne Geary and Spencer Acadia
Work Alienation in Academic Libraries: A Marxist Analysis of Library Dysfunction / Zorian M. Sasyk
Bamboo Ceiling Reframed: Exclusion through Social Practices and Structures in Libraries / Silvia Vong
Combating Destruction: Organizational Power and Conflict in Academic Libraries / Sara Parme and Amy Pajewski
Dysfunction by (Dis)organization: The Academic Library within University Structure and Organization / Jasmine Hoover

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3244518

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