Posts Tagged ‘burnout’
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Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves
2018–01–10 | 39 commentsIn Brief Vocational awe describes the set of ideas, values, and assumptions librarians have about themselves and the profession that result in notions that libraries as institutions are inherently good, sacred notions, and therefore beyond critique. I argue that the concept of vocational awe directly correlates to problems within librarianship like burnout and low salary….
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Tryin’ to Get My Mojo Workin’
2010–07–07 | 14 commentsMuddy Waters, can you help me get my mojo working? by Emily Ford I have a problem. Several months ago I realized I’d lost my librarian mojo and since that time I’ve been struggling to reclaim it. Being the person that I am, I have been hyper-analyzing my mojo loss. I have been disenchanted at…