"Always at work": Canadian academic librarian work during COVID-19

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dc.contributor.authorMcLay Paterson, Amy
dc.contributor.authorEva, Nicole
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-12T23:42:29Z
dc.date.available2023-01-12T23:42:29Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.descriptionOpen access article. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) appliesen_US
dc.description.abstractTo learn about the experiences of librarians working through COVID-19, we conducted semi-structured interviews with academic librarians from across Canada on issues such as workload, collegiality, and overall satisfaction with their working conditions during the pandemic. Themes emerged around job security, workload changes (both in terms of hours worked and the type of work being done), working from home, relationships with colleagues and administrators (including the perceived speed of the institution’s pandemic response and the state of communication from or with administration), and hopes for the future. This article focuses on the semantic elements of librarian work during COVID-19 uncovered during thematic analysis, including an in-depth discussion of how academic librarians’ workload changed; a second planned article will focus on latent themes on the caring nature of library work. This study connects isolated individual situations with the overall picture of what librarians’ work looked and felt like during the COVID-19 pandemic. For library administrators, we identify the ways in which institutional support helped or hindered librarians in doing their work.en_US
dc.description.peer-reviewYesen_US
dc.identifier.citationMcLay Paterson, A., & Eva, N. (2022). "Always at work": Canadian academic librarian work during COVID-19. Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, 17(2), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.21083/partnership.v17i2.6783en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/6404
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherThe Partnership. Provincial and Territorial Library Association of Canadaen_US
dc.publisher.departmentLibraryen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.publisher.institutionThompson Rivers Universityen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Lethbridgeen_US
dc.publisher.urlhttps://doi.org/10.21083/partnership.v17i2.6783en_US
dc.subjectAcademic librariansen_US
dc.subjectWork loaden_US
dc.subjectLibrarian workloaden_US
dc.subjectCOVID-19en_US
dc.subjectLibrary labouren_US
dc.subjectRemote worken_US
dc.subject.lcshAcademic librarians--Canada
dc.subject.lcshCOVID 19 Pandemic, 2020- --Canada
dc.title"Always at work": Canadian academic librarian work during COVID-19en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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