Information professionals are under constant stress. Libraries are ushering in sweeping changes that involve the closing of branches and reference desks, wholesale dumping of print, disappearing space, and employment of non-professional staff to fill what have traditionally been the roles of librarians. Increasing workloads, constant interruptions, ceaseless change, continual downsizing, budget cuts, repetitive work, and the pressures of public services have caused burnout in many information professionals.Managing Burnout in the Workplace concentrates on the problem of burnout, what it is and how it differs from chronic stress, low morale, and depression. The book addresses burnout from psychological, legal, and human resources perspectives. Chapters also cover how burnout is defined, symptom recognition, managing and overcoming burnout, and how to avoid career derailment while coping with burnout.

Auteur

Nancy McCormack is a librarian and Associate Professor of Law at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada. She teaches legal research to upper year and graduate students in the Law Faculty. Nancy has co-authored the Practical Guide to Canadian Legal Research and Updating Statutes and Regulations for All Canadian Jurisdictions. Catherine Cotter is the Reference and Instruction Librarian at the University of New Brunswick's Faculty of Law Library, and is a member of the Bar of Manitoba. She is responsible for reference and instruction services for law library patrons and teaching legal research to all first year law students. Catherine has co-authored the Canadian Law Dictionary and the Practical Guide to Canadian Legal Research.

Texte du rabat

Managing Burnout in the Workplace concentrates on the problem of burnout, what it is and how it differs from chronic stress, low morale, and depression.

Résumé

"...a fascinating and much-needed book...thoroughly recommended to both library staff who feel they may be on the way to burnout or already there, and to library managers who need to understand what the condition is, how to prevent it and how to deal with it..." --Australian Library Journal,Vol 63, No 4

Contenu

What is burnout? Burnout and information professionals: How we got this way; Burnout, information professionals and other helping professions; Burnout: The psychological perspective; Burnout: The organizational perspective; Burnout: The legal perspective; Gender and burnout; Preventing burnout; Managing and overcoming burnout.