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9780081005552 English 0081005555 In an academic environment of rapid change and doing more with less, librarians are increasingly challenged to manage stress, remain resilient, and take a proactive approach to complex issues that affect our profession. Our research and writing examines how mindfulness, while helpful in its own right, can be specifically applied to research, information literacy-related instruction, modern reference services, the academic liaison role, and library management in a college or university setting as well as In the K-12 setting through the role of the solo school librarian. The Mindful Librarian offers a mindful perspective for librarians, that can help them proactively deal with changes which affect all libraries and their constituencies and enhance communications with faculty, staff, and students. Mindfulness practice provides tools for better focus, greater resiliency, and reduced stress. Dr. Richard Moniz, MA (History), MLIS, EdD has served as a Director of Library Services for Johnson & Wales University since 1997 and as an adjunct instructor for the MLIS program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro since 2006. He is the author of the textbook Practical and Effective Management of Libraries, co-author of Fundamentals for the Academic Liaison, co-author of The Personal Librarian: Enhancing the Student Experience and has contributed chapters for Mid-Career Library & Information Professionals: A Leadership Primer and Advances in Library Administration and Organization (2015 edition). Joe Eshieman, MLIS served as Instruction Librarian at Johnson & Wales University in Charlotte, NC from 2008 until 2015. He is currently Head of Reference at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, RI. He is a coauthor of Fundamentals for the Academic Liaison and The Personal Librarian: Enhancing the Student Experience. Jo Henry, MPA, MLIS is the Information Services Librarian at South Piedmont Community College. In addition to other publications she is co-author of Fundamentals for the Academic Liaison and The Personal Librarian: Enhancing the Student Experience. Lisa Moniz, MLS has 21 years of experience working as a school library media specialist in both public and independent schools and has been active in a variety of library-related organizations. Dr. Howard Slutzky, Psy. D. has worked in a variety of clinical settings including community mental health, college counseling, and private practice. He is currently a full professor at Johnson & Wales University and also offers numerous health and wellness workshops to students on a wide variety of topics. Key Points, provides a greater understanding of what is meant by mindful practice and elaborates upon its application in the educational environment, focuses on how librarians might be more mindful in specific contexts such as instruction, reference, working with faculty, or managing their library providing practical examples that can be used right away to gain greater peace and resiliency in the library workplace, includes numerous examples of the creative ways in which contemplative practices are being inserted into school and college curriculums and the key role that librarians can play in supporting these efforts Book jacket., The Mindful Librarian: Connecting the Practice of Mindfulness to Librarianship explores mindfulness, approaching it in such a way as to relate specifically to the many roles or challenges librarians face. Coinciding with the increased need to juggle a variety of tasks, technologies, ebooks, and databases, the new Association of College & Research Libraries Framework for Information Literacy, and the challenges faced by solo librarians in school libraries which have suffered cutbacks in help in recent years, the time is exactly right for this publication. The authors hope to be helpful in some small way towards improving the joy and quality of life that librarians and library science students experience in their personal lives and jobs. The loftier goal would be to create a new lens from which to view librarianship, having a transformative impact on readers, and opening a new dialog within the profession. The topic of mindfulness is not new; it has been connected to various religious traditions in a wide variety of ways for centuries, most notably Buddhism. In the latter part of the 20th century, however, a secular version was popularized largely by the work of Jon Kabat-Zinn and his work on MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) at the University of Massachusetts's Medical School. The medical benefits and the overall quality of life improvements from its adoption have exploded in recent years, in particular, the last two decades which have seen mindfulness traditions incorporated into education to a greater degree and with very positive results. Presents the only current LIS book that covers this topic directly in a way applies directly to librarians Provides a topic that will be appealing to librarians, as it speaks to the pressures of budget cuts and consumer culture being felt across the academy Seeks to improve the joy and quality of life that librarians and library science students experience in their personal lives and jobs
9780081005552 English 0081005555 In an academic environment of rapid change and doing more with less, librarians are increasingly challenged to manage stress, remain resilient, and take a proactive approach to complex issues that affect our profession. Our research and writing examines how mindfulness, while helpful in its own right, can be specifically applied to research, information literacy-related instruction, modern reference services, the academic liaison role, and library management in a college or university setting as well as In the K-12 setting through the role of the solo school librarian. The Mindful Librarian offers a mindful perspective for librarians, that can help them proactively deal with changes which affect all libraries and their constituencies and enhance communications with faculty, staff, and students. Mindfulness practice provides tools for better focus, greater resiliency, and reduced stress. Dr. Richard Moniz, MA (History), MLIS, EdD has served as a Director of Library Services for Johnson & Wales University since 1997 and as an adjunct instructor for the MLIS program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro since 2006. He is the author of the textbook Practical and Effective Management of Libraries, co-author of Fundamentals for the Academic Liaison, co-author of The Personal Librarian: Enhancing the Student Experience and has contributed chapters for Mid-Career Library & Information Professionals: A Leadership Primer and Advances in Library Administration and Organization (2015 edition). Joe Eshieman, MLIS served as Instruction Librarian at Johnson & Wales University in Charlotte, NC from 2008 until 2015. He is currently Head of Reference at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, RI. He is a coauthor of Fundamentals for the Academic Liaison and The Personal Librarian: Enhancing the Student Experience. Jo Henry, MPA, MLIS is the Information Services Librarian at South Piedmont Community College. In addition to other publications she is co-author of Fundamentals for the Academic Liaison and The Personal Librarian: Enhancing the Student Experience. Lisa Moniz, MLS has 21 years of experience working as a school library media specialist in both public and independent schools and has been active in a variety of library-related organizations. Dr. Howard Slutzky, Psy. D. has worked in a variety of clinical settings including community mental health, college counseling, and private practice. He is currently a full professor at Johnson & Wales University and also offers numerous health and wellness workshops to students on a wide variety of topics. Key Points, provides a greater understanding of what is meant by mindful practice and elaborates upon its application in the educational environment, focuses on how librarians might be more mindful in specific contexts such as instruction, reference, working with faculty, or managing their library providing practical examples that can be used right away to gain greater peace and resiliency in the library workplace, includes numerous examples of the creative ways in which contemplative practices are being inserted into school and college curriculums and the key role that librarians can play in supporting these efforts Book jacket., The Mindful Librarian: Connecting the Practice of Mindfulness to Librarianship explores mindfulness, approaching it in such a way as to relate specifically to the many roles or challenges librarians face. Coinciding with the increased need to juggle a variety of tasks, technologies, ebooks, and databases, the new Association of College & Research Libraries Framework for Information Literacy, and the challenges faced by solo librarians in school libraries which have suffered cutbacks in help in recent years, the time is exactly right for this publication. The authors hope to be helpful in some small way towards improving the joy and quality of life that librarians and library science students experience in their personal lives and jobs. The loftier goal would be to create a new lens from which to view librarianship, having a transformative impact on readers, and opening a new dialog within the profession. The topic of mindfulness is not new; it has been connected to various religious traditions in a wide variety of ways for centuries, most notably Buddhism. In the latter part of the 20th century, however, a secular version was popularized largely by the work of Jon Kabat-Zinn and his work on MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) at the University of Massachusetts's Medical School. The medical benefits and the overall quality of life improvements from its adoption have exploded in recent years, in particular, the last two decades which have seen mindfulness traditions incorporated into education to a greater degree and with very positive results. Presents the only current LIS book that covers this topic directly in a way applies directly to librarians Provides a topic that will be appealing to librarians, as it speaks to the pressures of budget cuts and consumer culture being felt across the academy Seeks to improve the joy and quality of life that librarians and library science students experience in their personal lives and jobs