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Low morale in ethnic and racial minority academic librarians: An experiential study

Kendrick, Kaetrena Davis; Damasco, Ione T.

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Title
Low morale in ethnic and racial minority academic librarians: An experiential study
Author(s)
  • Kendrick, Kaetrena Davis
  • Damasco, Ione T.
Issue Date
2019
Keyword(s)
  • Academic librarianship
  • Low morale
  • Racial and ethnic minority librarians
Abstract
Library and information science (LIS) literature about workplace bullying and burnout in academic libraries continues to grow, and a recent study has revealed the experience of low morale in the same environment. Concomitantly, research focusing on continuing recruitment, promotion, advancement, and retention problems for ethnic and minority librarians; links between North American library values and workplace abuse; and historiographies on the historic marginalization of minority librarians has also appeared in LIS literature. Citing aforementioned developments in LIS literature and the racially homogenous participant make-up of Kendrick's 2017 study of low morale in academic libraries, this follow-up qualitative study focuses on racial and ethnic minority academic librarians to understand this group's experience of low morale. Emerging data validate the development, trajectory, and health-related consequences of low morale; center the load of additional impact factors; and highlight the impact of low morale on recruitment and retention efforts of racial and ethnic minority librarians employed in North American colleges and universities.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Illinois School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Series/Report Name or Number
Library Trends 68 (2). Fall 2019
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/106087
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2019.0036
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Copyright 2019 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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Library Trends 68 (2) Fall 2019: Labor in Academic Libraries PRIMARY
Library Trends 68 (2) Fall 2019: Labor in Academic Libraries. Edited by Emily Drabinski, Aliqae Geraci, and Roxanne Shirazi.