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"Always at Work": Canadian Academic Librarian Work During COVID-19
Partnership : the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research ; 17(2):1-24, 2022.
Article in English | ProQuest Central | ID: covidwho-2204842
ABSTRACT
Afin de connaître les experiences des bibliothécaires travaillant pendant la COVID-19, nous avons méné des entrevues semi-dirigées auprės de bibliothécaires universitaires å travers le Canada sur des sujets tels la charge de travail, la collégialité et la satisfaction genérale a ľégard de leurs conditions de travail pendant la pandemie. Des thėmes ont émergé concernant la sécurité ďemploi, les changements de la charge de travail (tant au niveau des heures travaillées et le type de travail effectué), le travail å distance, les relations avec des collégues et des administrateurs (y compris la vitesse perçue de la réponse institutionnelle face å la pandemie et ľétat des communications provenant de ľadministration et avec celle-ci), et ľespoir pour ľavenir. Cet article porte suries elements sémantiques du travail des bibliothécaires pendant la COVID-19 découverts lors de ľanalyse thématique, Induant une discussion approfondle sur la façon dont la charge de travail des bibliothécaires universitaires a change;un deuxiéme article portera sur les themes latents sur la nature du care au sein du travail en bibliothéque. Cette étude relie des situations individuelles solees pour offrir un portrait general de ce â quoi ressemblait notre travail et de ce que nous ressentions face á celui-ci durant la pandemie de la COVID-19. Pour les administrateurs des bibliothéques, nous identifions des moyens par lesquels le soutien institutionnel a aidé ou a nui au travail des bibliothécaires.AlternateTo learn about the experiences of librarians working through COVID-19, we conducted semi-structured interviews with academic librarians from across Canada on issues such as workload, collegiality, and overall satisfaction with their working conditions during the pandemic. Themes emerged around job security, workload changes (both in terms of hours worked and the type of work being done), working from home, relationships with colleagues and administrators (including the perceived speed of the institutions pandemic response and the state of communication from or with administration), and hopes for the future. This article focuses on the semantic elements of librarian work during COVID-19 uncovered during thematic analysis, including an in-depth discussion of how academic librarians workload changed;a second planned article will focus on latent themes on the caring nature of library work. This study connects isolated individual situations with the overall picture of what librarians work looked and felt like during the COVID-19 pandemic. For library administrators, we identify the ways in which institutional support helped or hindered librarians in doing their work.
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Full text: Available Collection: Databases of international organizations Database: ProQuest Central Language: English Journal: Partnership : the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research Year: 2022 Document Type: Article