"Relationships of care": care and meaning in Canadian academic librarian work during COVID-19

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dc.contributor.authorMcLay Paterson, Amy
dc.contributor.authorEva, Nicole
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-11T23:45:15Z
dc.date.available2023-01-11T23:45:15Z
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.abstractIn March and April 2021, we conducted semi-structured interviews with academic librarians from across Canada about their experiences working through COVID-19 thus far. Topics included workload, collegiality, and overall satisfaction with their working conditions during a pandemic. Themes emerged around job scurity, meaningful work, workload shifts, working from home, relationships with colleagues and administrators, and hopes for the future. While individual experiences varied greatly, the biggest uniting factor was the care and deliberation that characterized both our participants’ framing of work that was meaningful to them as well as their ideal relationships with colleagues and administrators. This research connects to previous literature on vocational awe and emotional labour in libraries. For librarians, this study connects isolated individual situations with the overall picture of what our work looked and felt like during the COVID-19 pandemic. For library administrators, we have identified some general trends, which can provide insight in the areas of communication, flexibility, and institutional support as we work toward a post-pandemic new normal.en_US
dc.description.peer-reviewYesen_US
dc.identifier.citationMcLay Paterson, A., & Eva, N. (2022). "Relationships of care": Care and meaning in Canadian academic librarian work duing COVID-19. Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, 17(2), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.21083/partnership.v17i2.7055en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/6403
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.v17i2.7055en_US
dc.subjectAcademic librariansen_US
dc.subjectCOVID-19en_US
dc.subjectLibrary labouren_US
dc.subjectLibrarian workloaden_US
dc.subjectCare in librariesen_US
dc.subjectAffective labouren_US
dc.subject.lcshAcademic librarians--Canada
dc.subject.lcshCOVID 19 Pandemic, 2020- --Canada
dc.title"Relationships of care": care and meaning in Canadian academic librarian work during COVID-19en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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