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"Relationships of Care": Care and Meaning in Canadian Academic Librarian Work during COVID-19
Partnership : the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research ; 17(2):1-26, 2022.
Article in English | ProQuest Central | ID: covidwho-2204843
ABSTRACT
En mars et avril 2021, nous avons mené des entrevues semi-dirigées auprės de bibliothécaires universitaires å travers le Canada au sujet de leur experience de travail durant la COVID-19 jusqu'â present. Les sujets abordes comprenaient la charge de travail, la collégialité et la satisfaction genérale á ľégard de leurs conditions de travail pendant la pandemie. Des themes ont emerge concernant la sécurité ďemploi, le sens du travail, les changements de la charge de travail, le travail å distance, les relations avec des collėgues et des administrateurs, et ľespoir pour ľavenir. Quoique les experiences individuelles varient grandement, le plus grand facteur unifiant est le care et la deliberation qui caractérisent â la fois ľencadrement par nos participants du travail qui a du sens pour eux ainsi que leurs relations ideales avec des collėgues et des administrateurs. Cette enquete se joint å la recherche antérleure sur ľémerveillement professionnel et le travail émotionnel dans les bibliothéques. Pour les bibliothécaires, cette étude relie des situations individuelles ¡solees pouroffrir un portrait general de ce å quoi ressemblait notre travail et de ce que nous ressentions face â celui-ci durant la pandemie de la COVID-19. Pour les administrateurs des bibliothéques, nous avons identifié quelques tendances genérales qui peuvent fournir un aperçu dans les domaines de la communication, la flexibilite et le soutien institutionnel alors que nous travaillons vers une nouvelle normalitě post-pandémique.AlternateIn March and April 2021, we conducted semi-structured interviews with academic librarians from across Canada about their experiences working through COVID-19 thus far. Topics included workload, collegiality, and overall satisfaction with their working conditions during a pandemic. Themes emerged around job security, meaningful work, workload shifts, working from home, relationships with colleagues and administrators, and hopes for the future. While individual experiences varied greatly, the biggest uniting factor was the care and deliberation that characterized both our participants' framing of work that was meaningful to them as well as their Ideal relationships with colleagues and administrators. This research connects to previous literature on vocational awe and emotional labour in libraries. For librarians, this study connects isolated individual situations with the overall picture of what our work looked and felt like during the COVID-19 pandemic. For library administrators, we have identified some general trends, which can provide Insight in the areas of communication, flexibility, and institutional support as we work toward a post-pandemic new normal.
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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