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Call for Participation: survey on leadership style and librarian burnout in academic libraries

  • 1.  Call for Participation: survey on leadership style and librarian burnout in academic libraries

    Posted Mar 09, 2021 04:35 PM

    Dear Colleagues,

    Are you an academic librarian who has experienced or witnessed burnout (whether pre-pandemic or current)? Do you share our interest in the ways that organizational culture and leadership style may impact individuals' experiences of work and workplace?


    If so, we'd like to learn from you! We are compiling brief narratives about librarians' experiences with fatigue/exhaustion, hopelessness, frustration, and/or a lack of work-life balance. We are particularly interested in the ways organizational cultures and structures can be built, influenced, and shifted to positive effect in burnout situations; the varied leadership behaviors in play; specific strategies; and lessons learned. These narratives may become part of a chapter, tentatively titled "Combating Burnout: Positive/Transformational Leadership and Organizational Culture," in a book about academic librarian burnout, to be published by ACRL Press.


    • Your participation will involve approximately 5-10 minutes of your time filling out an anonymous web survey.
    • While there are no known risks to completing the survey, you are allowed to skip questions that make you uncomfortable.
    • Participation in this survey will not benefit you directly, but may benefit others by providing useful information for professionals who are dealing with academic librarian burnout and/or a lack of positive leadership or non-supportive workplace culture.
    • Participation in this survey is completely voluntary. Your participation is anonymous and you may withdraw from the survey for any reason, and at any time without penalty.

    To participate, please fill out this brief survey.


    If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please email us:



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    Linda Miles
    Assistant Professor - Librarian
    Hostos Community College
    lmiles.librarian@gmail.com
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