What Am I Doing and Why Am I Here?: Meaning, the Moment, and Combating Burnout

Megan Browndorf, Research & Instruction Librarian, Towson University

LOEX, Pittsburgh, PA May 7, 2016

References & Resources

Libraries and Library Instruction

Accardi, M. (2015, March 23). What is burnout? [Web log post]. Retrieved from:

ACRL (2016, January). Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. Retrieved from:

Affleck, M.A. (1996). Burnout among bibliographic instruction librarians. Library & Information Science Research 18(2), 165-183.

Becker, K. (1993). The characteristics of bibliographic instruction in relation to the causes and symptoms of burnout. Reference Quarterly 32(2), 346-357.

Beilin, I. (2015). Beyond the threshold: conformity, resistance, and the ACRL information literacy framework for higher education. In the Library with the Lead Pipe. Retrieved from:

Elmborg, J. (2006). Critical information literacy: Implications for instructional practice. Journal of Academic Librarianship 32(2), 192-199.

Julien, H. & Genius, S.K. (2009). Emotional labour in librarians’ instructional work. Journal of Documentation 65(6), 926-937.

Klipfel, K.M. (2015). Authenticity and learning: implications for reference librarianship and information literacy instruction. College & Research Libraries 76(1), 19-30.

Matteson, M.L. & Miller, S.S. (2012). Emotional labor in librarianship: A research agenda. Library & Information Science Research 34(3), 176-183.

Matteson, M.L. & Miller, S.S. (2013). A study of emotional labor in librarianship. Library & Information Science Research 35(1), 54-62.

O’Connor, L. (2009a) Information literacy as professional legitimation: a critical analysis. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 50(2), 79-89.

O’Connor, L. (2009b) Information literacy as professional legitimation: the quest for a new jurisdiction. Library Review 58(7), 493-508.

Sheesley, D.F. (2001). Burnout and the academic teaching librarian: An examination of the problem and suggested solutions. The Journal of Academic Librarianship 27(6), 447-451.

Kairos

Drabinski, E. (2014). Toward a Kairosof library instruction. The Journal of Academic Librarianship 40(5), 480-485.

Drabinski, E. (2016). Becoming librarians, becoming teachers: Kairos and professional identity.Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science 40(1), 27-36.

Nelson, J.D. (2016). Moments of opportunity: Engaging Kairos in the Classroom. Radical Pedagogy 13(1), 54-62. Retrieved from:

Emotional Labor & Burnout

Ashforth, B.E. & Humphrey R.H. (1993). Emotional labor in service roles: the influence of identity. The Academy of Management Review 18(1), 88-115.

Grandey, A., Foo, S.C., Groth, M. & Goodwin, R.E. (2012). Free to be you and me: a climate of authenticity alleviates burnout from emotional labor. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology 17(1), 1-14.

Hochschild, R.A. (1983). The managed heart: commercialization of human feeling. Berkley: University of California Press.

Kenworthy, J., Fay, C., Frame M., & Petree R. (2014). A meta-analytic review of the relationship between emotional dissonance and emotional exhaustion. Journal of Applied Social Psychology 44(2), 94-105.

Maslach, C. (1993). Burnout: a multidimensional perspective. In W.B. Schaufeli, C. Maslach, & T. Marek (Eds.), Professional burnout: recent developments in theory and research (pp.19-32). Washington,DC: Taylor & Francis.

Pugh, S.D., Groth, M., & Hennig-Thurau, T. (2011). Willing and able to fake emotions: a closer examination of the link between emotional dissonance and employee well-being. Journal of Applied Psychology, 96(2), 377-390.

Meaning, Meaningfulness & Authenticity

Frankl, V.E. (2006). Man’s Search for Meaning. (Ilse Lasch, Trans.). Boston: Beacon Press. (Original work published 1946).

Loonstra, B. Brouwers, A., & Tomic, W. (2009). Feelings of existential fulfilment and burnout among secondary school teachers. Teaching and Teacher Education 25, 752-757.

Rosso, B.D., Dekas, K.H. & Wrzesniewski, A. (2010). On the meaning of work: a theoretical integration and review. Research in Organizational Behavior 30, 91-127.

Salmela, M. (2005). What is emotional authenticity? Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 35(3), 209-230.

Sloan, M. (2007). The “real self” and inauthenticity: the importance of self-concept anchorage for emotional experiences in the workplace. Social psychology quarterly 70(3), 305-318.

Taxer, J.L. & Frenzel, A.C. Facets of teachers’ emotional lives: a quantitative investigation of teachers’ genuine, faked, and hidden emotions. Teaching and Teacher Education 49, 78-88.

Deci, E.L. & Ryan, R.M. (2000). The “what and “why” of goal pursuits: human needs and the self-determination of behavior. Psychological Inquiry 11(4), 227-268.

Methodology

Adams, T.E., Holman Jones, S., & Ellis, C. (2015). Autoethnography: Understanding qualitative research. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Greenland, K. (2013). Negotiating self-presentation, identity, ethics, readership and privacy in the LIS blogosphere: a review of the literature. Australian Acacdemic & Research Libraries 44(4), 217-225.

Guzik, E. (2013). Representing ourselves in information science research: A methodological essay on autoethnography. Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science 37(4), 267-283.

Michels, D.H. (2010). The place of the person in LIS research: An exploration in methodology and representation. Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science 34(2), 161-83.

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