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Reading Workplace Dynamics: A Post-Pandemic Professional Ethos in Public Libraries
ISBN: 978-1-83797-071-1, eISBN: 978-1-83797-070-4
ISSN: 0065-2830
Publication date: 1 August 2024
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(2024), "Index", Irvin, V. and Mehra, B. (Ed.) Reading Workplace Dynamics: A Post-Pandemic Professional Ethos in Public Libraries (Advances in Librarianship, Vol. 55), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 189-194. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0065-283020240000055017
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:Emerald Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2024 Vanessa Irvin and Bharat Mehra
INDEX
Access Centers
, 86
African American mothers
, 42
African American women
, 44
Age
, 41
Agency
, 3
American Association of School Librarians (AASL)
, 156
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
, 153
American Community Survey
, 69–70
American Library Association (ALA)
, 40, 52, 149
Angier (NC) Public Library
, 70–71
Anthropological place
, 19–22
Anti-literacy laws
, 29
Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T)
, 40
Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE)
, 40
Attack
, 56–57
Authorial agency
, 110–111
Autoethnography
, 55, 114
Banned Books Book Club
, 156
Billings (MT) Public Library
, 70–71
Black feminism
culturally centered perspective of information practices
, 39–45
culture
, 35–36
explicating culture
, 38–39
information behavior/practices split
, 36–38
Black Feminist Information Community Model (BFIC Model)
, 5, 42–43
Black feminist information model
, 42
Black Feminist thought
, 40
Black motherhood
, 5, 28
positionality, motherhood, and privileged library
, 29–30
“reading” intersectional experiences as womanist canonical praxis
, 30–32
“reading” motherhood as racialized institution
, 28–29
womanist maternal praxis
, 32
Black women
, 40–41
Blount County Friends of the Library (BCFOL)
, 112
Blount County Public Library (BCPL)
COVID-19 impacts on
, 111
early BCPL responses
, 114–119
foundation
, 112
organizational structure
, 111–112
Brazil
anthropological place or non-place
, 19–22
considerations
, 24
public libraries in
, 14
spatialities and power
, 15–19
third place
, 22–24
Call for attack & coordination
, 55–56
Capitalism
, 16–17
CARES-Act
, 66, 72
Censorship
, 38, 154
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
, 65
Citizenship
, 19
education
, 15
Clovis-Carver (NM) Public Library
, 70–71
Coffee shops
, 94
Cognitive dissonance
, 69
Collaborative governance
, 131
Commemorative injustice
, 53
Community justice
, 42
Community life-integrated opportunities
, 101
Community resilience
, 175–176
Community services
, 71
Concerned black workers and issues with DEI
, 83–85
Consumerism
, 20
Cooperative Children’s Books Center (CCBC)
, 150
COVID-19 pandemic
, 1, 3, 28, 40–41, 80, 92, 154, 164, 183
effects of
, 20
impact of covid-19 on research and in New York city
, 98–99
impact on public libraries
, 110–111
on BCPL
, 111
stories
, 64
worldwide health crisis
, 29
Crisis
, 130
Critical engagement
, 30, 32
Culturally centered perspective of information practices
, 39
centering black women
, 40–41
gendered perspective
, 41–43
voice & information
, 43–45
Culture
, 19, 35–36, 38
explicating
, 38–39
of inclusivity
, 100
Curricular injustice
, 53
Cyber-flashing
, 54
Data collection strategies
, 96
focus groups
, 97
interviews
, 97
pilot studies
, 96
questionnaires
, 97
Defacticization
, 20–21
Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF)
, 68
Digitization of communication
, 3
Disciplinary institutions
, 16
Education in Library and Information Science (ELIS) model
, 93
Electronic Revolution, The (1970)
, 17
Emancipatory approaches
, 55
Empathy
, 74
Empowerment of community processes
, 44
Environmental scan
, 69–72
Epistemic injustice
, 52–53
Epistemicide
, 52
harms
, 53
Equity-diversity-inclusion-accessibility (EDIA)
, 3
ESOL classes
, 100
Essential workers
, 65
Ethnic restaurants
, 94
Ethos for public libraries in post-covid world
, 185–186
Factual superabundance
, 21
Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist (Gentili)
, 151
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
, 52
Feminist approaches
, 29
Focus groups
, 97
Forest Park (IL) Public Library website
, 70–71
Foucault’s theory
, 16
FReadom Fighters
, 155
Free Library of Philadelphia (FLP)
, 6, 78
administrative response
, 78–80
concerned black workers and issues with DEI
, 83–85
equipping staff to restart programs during pandemic
, 85–87
interruption of regular programs for children and teens
, 82–83
operational response
, 80–81
short staffing and vaccine quotas
, 87
staff response
, 81–87
Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF)
, 154
Gender
, 41
Gendered perspective
, 41–43
Geographers
, 15
Geographic Information Sciences and Applied Geographics (GISAG)
, 70
Geographic space
, 20
Global pandemic
, 5
Governance
, 119–120
Grand Junction (CO) Public Library
, 72
Grand Rapids (MI) Public Library
, 70–71
Hair salons
, 94
Harm
, 57
Hermeneutical injustice
, 53
Historical legacies
, 28
Historical trauma
, 53
Humanization of information
, 44
Hyperlocal resource guide
, 71
Immediatism
, 20
Immigrants
, 92–93
characteristics of immigrant participants
, 98
communities
, 94
interaction with librarians
, 101
Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965
, 93
Immigration-related opportunities
, 100–101
Inaugural Barbara Gittings Literature Award for Poetry
, 150
Individualism
, 20
Industrial Revolution
, 16
Inequitable structures
, 30
Information
, 43–45
acquisition
, 36
community
, 43
crisis
, 40
marginalization
, 5, 37
needs
, 92
poverty
, 37
relationships
, 39
seeking
, 93
technologies
, 22
Information and communications technology (ICT)
, 99
Information behavior
, 36
community
, 93
information behavior/practices split
, 36–38
Information practices
, 36
context
, 35–36
Information professionals
, 52
epistemic injustice and harms of epistemicide
, 53
interrupters
, 57–58
methodology
, 55
threat model of zoombombing
, 55–57
workplace dynamics and rhetoric of violence
, 54
zooming in on zoombombing
, 54–55
Inside/outside library partnerships
, 6–7
Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
, 66, 148
Intentional practice
, 177
International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia (IDAHOBIT)
, 154
Internet
, 38
Interrupters
, 57–58
Interviews
, 97
IS disciplines
, 40
Kings of B’More (Thomas)
, 151
Lafayette (LA) Public Library
, 71
Lecture Series/Author Events
, 87
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/or queer community (LGBTQ community)
, 54
LGBTQ+ youth
, 156
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender plus (LGBT+)
, 37
LGBTQIA+
, 149
Librarian participants
characteristics of
, 98–99
in interviews and focus group
, 98–99
in questionnaires
, 98
Librarians
, 97
ethos
, 1–2
identity
, 1–2
Librarianship
, 15
Library and information science (LIS)
, 2, 4–5, 36, 92–93, 166
discourse
, 184
professionals
, 53
Library Bill of Rights
, 155
Library director
, 110
BCPL’s organizational structure
, 111–112
before COVID
, 112–113
during COVID
, 114–119
Covid’s impact on public libraries
, 110–111
fiscal impacts
, 121
library building during COVID-19
, 120
methodology
, 113–114
operational impacts
, 121–123
pandemic cracks local governance
, 119–120
positive COVID-19 outcomes
, 123
programs, services, and resources impacts
, 122–123
staffing impacts
, 121–122
Library/libraries
, 92, 167, 175–176, 183
administration
, 81
administrators
, 83, 86
building during COVID-19
, 120
governance
, 111–112
space
, 67
staff
, 67–68, 81
support organizations
, 112
use data
, 113
Literacy Enrichment Afterschool Program (LEAP)
, 82
Lockdown phase
, 1
Masking
, 86–87
Mesa County (CO) Libraries
, 70
#MeToo
, 41
Mixed-methods study
, 66
environmental scan
, 69–72
interviews
, 68–69
survey
, 66–68
Mixing
, 17–18
Motherhood
, 28–30
Motherwork
, 28–29
Nationwide shutdown
, 81
Navel-gazing
, 2–3
New English Canaan (Morton)
, 152
New Mexico
, 164
customizing information access
, 176–177
holistic view
, 173–174
identifying vulnerable groups
, 172–173
libraries and community resilience
, 175–176
outreach and inclusion in difficult times
, 177
partnerships and sustainability
, 174–175
personal sustainability
, 170–172
research design and methodology
, 166–169
weaving tapestry of librarian knowledge and experience
, 170–177
Non-place
, 19–22
Novel Coronavirus
, 78
NVivo
, 99
Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF)
, 155
Online questionnaire
, 132
Open coding
, 95, 99
Other Mother, The
, 150
Pandemic
cracks local governance
, 119–120
decision-making story
, 68
interviews with library workers and collaborators during
, 132–133, 136–137
survey of library workplace experiences during
, 132, 133–136
Paranoid linguistic model
, 17
Partnerships
, 3, 131, 174–175
context for studies
, 130–131
implications
, 138–139
interviews with library workers and collaborators during pandemic
, 132–133
limitations
, 138
results
, 133–137
studies
, 132–133
survey of library workplace experiences during pandemic
, 132
Peer reviews
, 3
PEN America
, 156
Personal protective equipment (PPE)
, 65
Personal sustainability
, 170–172
Philadelphia
, 78
Physical isolation
, 20
Physical spaces
, 22
Pilot studies
, 96
Political ascendency
, 41
Portraits of Reading in Brazil
, 21
Positionality
, 29–30
Post-pandemic
, 87–89, 149
Power
, 15–19
Power-knowledge/power-action |game
, 16
Praxis
, 1–2, 32
Privileged library
, 29–30
Professional ethos
, 4, 58
Public and private divide
, 29
Public librarians
, 66, 130, 165, 184
facilitating information access to immigrants
, 101–102
issues and services to immigrants
, 103
providing intangible support to immigrants
, 102
Public librarianship
, 184
COVID shift
, 3–4
renewed ethos in
, 8
Public libraries
, 18, 28, 38, 92, 130, 164–165, 183–184
authorial agency
, 110–111
bearing witness
, 111
impact of COVID-19 on research and in New York City
, 98–99
COVID’s impact on
, 110–111
methodology
, 96–97
nuance of
, 184–185
problem statement
, 92–94
purpose of study
, 94
research design
, 95–96
research questions
, 95
services to immigrants, librarians, and institutional issues
, 103
significance of study
, 94
Public Libraries Survey (PLS)
, 132, 148
Public Library Association (PLA)
, 148
Public spaces
, 14–15
Public sphere
, 15
“Public/private” dynamics
, 28
Qualitative content analysis
, 167
Qualitative research approach
, 95
Queer reads and resistance in turbulent times
Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF)
, 154
milestones
, 149–152
Questionnaires
, 97
Race
, 41
Racial reckoning
, 41
Radical subjectivity
, 30–31
Rainbow Round Table (RRT)
, 149
Reading
, 4
intersectional experiences as womanist canonical praxis
, 30–32
motherhood as racialized institution
, 28–29
of Reading Workplace Dynamics
, 4–8
Reading Workplace Dynamics
, 3
reading of
, 4–8
Reclamation Ventures
, 156
Recreation & Parks (RPD)
, 68
Redemptive self-love
, 30–31
Regulatory society
, 16
Research instrument
, 141–145
Research Question 1 (RQ1)
, 95
Research Question 2 (RQ2)
, 95
Research Question 3 (RQ3)
, 95
Resources
, 111
Revenge Body (Wiley)
, 150
Rhizomatic place
, 17–18
Root-book
, 18
Ryan Dowd Homelessness Institute
, 67–68
Sacramento (CA) Public Library
, 71
School District of Philadelphia
, 86
Self care
, 58, 171
Semi-autoethnography
, 110
Sense-making
, 93
SEPTA (Philadelphia’s transit system)
, 87
Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORES)
, 100
Services
, 111, 167
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
, 148
Sexual violence
, 41
Short staffing
, 87
Small worlds
, 5, 36–37
“Snips” strategy
, 28, 30
Social actors
, 38
Social cohesion
, 165
Social configuration
, 17
Social control mechanism
, 16
Social distancing
, 86
Social institutions
, 16–17
Social justice in information science
, 43
Social order
, 17
Social reactors
, 38
Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT)
, 149
Societal institutions
, 28
Society of control
, 17
Socio-anthropological gap
, 4
Solidarity
, 65
Spatialities
, 15–19
Staff
, 64, 66
Staffing
, 131
Stonewall Awards
, 151
Subjectivity
, 18
Summer of Bitter and Sweet, The (Ferguson)
, 151
Sundays on Stage
, 86
Supermodernity
, 21
Survey instrument
, 180–182
Sustainability
, 174–175
Sustainability Plan 2021
, 121
Systemic inequalities
, 28
Testimonial injustice
, 53
Third place
, 22–24
Threat Model of Zoombombing (Ling)
, 52–53
Three-phase study
, 66
mixed-methods study
, 66–72
Traditional communalism
, 30–31
Transformation
, 17–18
Transgressive movement
, 30
Tribal librarians
, 165
United Nations (UN)
, 154
US Public Library Association (PLA)
, 130
US Supreme Court addressed Island Trees School District v. Pico (1982)
, 152
Vaccine quotas
, 87
Violence, rhetoric of
, 54
Virtual programming
, 86–87
Voice
, 43–45
We Need Diverse Books (WNDB)
, 150
Whiteness
, 38
Womanist canonical praxis
, 30–32
Womanist maternal praxis
, 32
Womanist memory
, 31
Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison, The (Ryan)
, 151
Work
, 3
Workplace dynamics
, 51–52, 54, 80, 124
World Health Organization (WHO)
, 148
Young adult (YA)
, 151
YouTube
, 87
Zoombombers
, 54
Zoombombing
, 52
attacks
, 55
threat model of
, 55–57
zooming in on
, 54–55
- Prelims
- Introduction: The Symbiosis of Public Librarianship – Praxis and Ethos for a Post-Pandemic Identity
- Section 1: Dynamics: Theoretical Lenses
- Chapter 1: Public Libraries in Brazil: Conceptual Review in The Post-Pandemic Era
- Chapter 2: “Reading” The Room in The COVID-19 Era as Womanist Canonical Praxis: Black Motherhood and Public Librarianship
- Chapter 3: Voices in The (Information)Wilderness: Black Feminism(s) and Informational Practices
- Chapter 4: “When They Go Low”: Preparing Information Professionals for Threats of Violence in Library Workplaces
- Section 2: Practices: Operationalizing Protocols and Policies
- Chapter 5: Commitment to Justice, Empathy, and Community During COVID-19: Results from a Three-Phase Study of Public Libraries
- Chapter 6: Equipping Librarians for Programming During and Post-Pandemic: A Turning Point for The Free Library of Philadelphia
- Chapter 7: Exploring The Information Experiences of Immigrants Toward Public Libraries in New York City
- Chapter 8: Blount County Public Library's Response to COVID-19: A Library Director's Pandemic Story
- Section 3: Connections: Inside/Outside Library Partnerships
- Chapter 9: Partnerships and the COVID-19 Pandemic: From Threat to Opportunity
- Chapter 10: Queer Reads and Resistance in Turbulent Times
- Chapter 11: Weaving Resilience: The Pandemic's Tapestry of Librarianship in New Mexico
- Epilogue: Chasing The Long Tail of Covid: Envisioning a Renewed Ethos for Public Librarianship
- Index