- 296 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Libraries as Dysfunctional Organizations and Workplaces
About this book
Libraries as Dysfunctional Organizations and Workplaces expands the "dysfunctional" concept in the professional and academic LIS discourse by exposing the internal problematics of libraries, especially at the social and organizational levels.
Including contributions written by LIS professionals and scholars, the book demonstrates that although many libraries do well at attending to users and managing external information they often fail at taking care of their own employees and addressing internal workplace issues. Acadia and the contributing authors explore the problem of dysfunctional libraries so that the LIS profession can come to terms with the systemic dysfunction in their institutions and begin solution-oriented progress toward new and sustainable functionality. The book analyzes the dysfunctional nature of modern libraries, while simultaneously proposing solutions to reduce and alleviate dysfunction. Through theory and application, it takes an explicit practice-based approach with the intent to inform and explain dysfunction as experienced in the library workplace at individual and structural levels and perspectives.
Libraries as Dysfunctional Organizations and Workplaces brings the dysfunction discourse to the attention of LIS academics and scholars so that further theoretical and empirical research can proceed from and subsequently be addressed in library and information schools. The book will also be essential reading for librarians and LIS students currently working or preparing to work in public, college, and university libraries.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- 1 An introduction to dysfunction in the library workplace
- 2 The dysfunctional library and academic librarian turnover
- 3 Improving dysfunctional recruitment and retention in academic libraries by honoring the whole person
- 4 Precarity doesn’t care: Precarious employment as a dysfunctional practice in libraries
- 5 Discrimination as dysfunction: Why do libraries have a problem with diversity, equity, and inclusion?
- 6 Workplace dysfunction and intellectual freedom in public libraries
- 7 The saboteur in the academic library
- 8 “Put the fucking salary in the job ad!”: An analysis of an anonymous corpus of tweets
- 9 You are seen: An analysis of library dysfunction found in online memes
- 10 A descriptive study of workplace bullying in U.S. libraries during the COVID-19 pandemic
- 11 Work alienation in academic libraries: A Marxist analysis of library dysfunction
- 12 Bamboo ceiling reframed: Exclusion through social practices and structures in libraries
- 13 Combating destruction: Organizational power and conflict in academic libraries
- 14 Dysfunction by (dis)organization: The academic library within university structure and organization
- Index