Full Description
Mindfulness not only offers the possibility of a healthy life/career balance for librarians themselves, but in challenging times of rapid social change and uncertainty, it also represents a powerful way to build community resilience. In fact, mindfulness experiences can be structured to nurture the kind of civic engagement and discourse essential for library support. This collection explores a wide range of approaches that demonstrate how librarians have integrated mindfulness into their teaching, collections, services, programming, spaces, partnerships, and professional development. An inspirational idea generator for library administrators, marketers, and outreach staff, in this book the contributors delve into such mindful activities as
using a work journal to practice reflective writing;
mindful strategies for leading library teams;
yoga and meditation groups at public libraries;
helping students destress with a library Zen Zone;
deploying digital resources to promote mindfulness;
mindful scholarship at Minneapolis College; and
overcoming research anxiety using a mindful approach.
As more librarians commit to individual and sustained reflection and practices in their own lives, those approaches can expand to include the communities they serve. This collection offers more than a dozen in-depth examples of mindfulness in action.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I Library as Hub
Chapter 1 Cultivating a "Mindful Medicine" Ethos — Rebecca Snyder and Robin O'Hanlon
Chapter 2 Accidentally Sustainable: Building a Weekly Meditation Community — Laura Horwood-Benton
Chapter 3 The Be Project: Sparking a Quiet Revolution in Rural Kentucky — Katie Scherrer
Chapter 4 Providing a Space to Rest: Weaving Restorative Yoga into the Strategic Plan — Millie Jackson
Part II Innovative Services
Chapter 5 Mindful McQuade: Mindfulness in the Heart of a Small College Campus — Catherine Wong, Katherine LaFlamme, and Michaela Keating
Chapter 6 Mindfulness Experiences: The Library Brain Booth — Katia G. Karadjova
Chapter 7 Craving Quiet: A Library's Zen Zone — Kellie Sparks and Hillary Fox
Part III Personal Practice
Chapter 8 Mindful and Reflective Writing as Strategy: How a Work Journal Can Help Make You Whole — Michelle Reale
Chapter 9 Mindfulness Is Not a Life Hack — Elizabeth Galoozis and Caro Pinto
Chapter 10 Outreach for Inreach: Using Digital Resources to Promote Mindfulness — Jenn Carson
Chapter 11 Mindfully Managing Library Teams — Jenny Colvin
Part IV Teaching/Research
Chapter 12 Shifting the Pace: Contemplative Practices and the Research Process — Lisa Meléndez
Chapter 13 A Persistent Praxis: Putting Mindfulness Scholarship into Action at Minneapolis College — Jennifer Sippel
Chapter 14 Going with the Flow: Finding Flexible Functionality in Teaching and Mentoring — Anne Pemberton and Lisa Coats
Chapter 15 Overcoming Research Anxiety: A Mindful Approach to Literature Review Searching — Elizabeth Galoozis and Kevin Michael Klipfel
Contributors
Index
