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LibParlor Classifieds – 4/5/21

Check out our new Classifieds! The Journal of Information Literacy has a call for papers and we have a survey invite for research on burnout and generational trends. Continue Reading LibParlor Classifieds – 4/5/21

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Opportunity

Call for Papers: JIL Special Issue on Information Literacy & COVID-19

The Journal of Information Literacy (JIL) welcomes submissions exploring the impact of COVID-19 on information literacy within all of its forms. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: changing understandings of workplace information literacy in relation to COVID-secure workplaces, home-working, furlough or job seeking contexts; intersections and the blurring of boundaries between education, health and community information literacy; shifting understandings of digital literacy, including related to privacy, surveillance, and digital inequality; information literacy and mental health, physical health and disability; COVID-safe information literacy research methods. If you would like to discuss whether your proposal meets the scope for this special issue, please contact the Editor, Alison Hicks, (a.hicks[at]ucl.ac.uk) for an informal chat. 

To learn more: https://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/JIL/announcement/view/38


Survey Invitation: Burnout & Generational Trends

Current academic librarians are invited to participate in a new study on academic librarian burnout. This study is being conducted by Brittany Hickey, Research & Instruction Librarian at Columbia College, to explore potential links and trends between specific generations and subcategories of burnout. ResultsResults The section of a research article where researchers share the results from the research. This section takes the results and directly connects them to the research questions or hypotheses posed at the start of the article. Also can be called “Findings.” of the study will be included in a forthcoming academic librarian burnout book.

The survey should take approximately 5-10 minutes to complete. The survey will ask questions about your job satisfaction and work-life balance.

Link to the survey: https://forms.gle/PLw6VLxvCfMSofsM9


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