<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><p dir="ltr" id="gmail-m_-3956269584408345770gmail-docs-internal-guid-7a45959d-7fff-ca9a-431b-75dc8e72b49c" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a name="m_8402357270978462688__Hlk52889427" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="">[please excuse cross-postings]</font></a><font face="Arial" style="font-size:11pt">

</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" id="gmail-m_-3956269584408345770gmail-docs-internal-guid-7a45959d-7fff-ca9a-431b-75dc8e72b49c" style="font-size:small;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" id="gmail-m_-3956269584408345770gmail-docs-internal-guid-7a45959d-7fff-ca9a-431b-75dc8e72b49c" style="font-size:small;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear Colleagues,</span></p><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:small;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Are you an academic librarian who has experienced or witnessed burnout (whether pre-pandemic or current)? Do you share our interest in the ways that organizational culture and leadership style may impact individuals’ experiences of work and workplace?</span></p><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:small;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If so, we’d like to learn from you! We are compiling brief narratives about librarians’ experiences with fatigue/exhaustion, hopelessness, frustration, and/or a lack of work-life balance. We are particularly interested in the ways organizational cultures and structures can be built, influenced, and shifted to positive effect in burnout situations; the varied leadership behaviors in play; specific strategies; and lessons learned. These narratives may become part of a chapter, tentatively titled “Combating Burnout: Positive/Transformational Leadership and Organizational Culture,” in a book about academic librarian burnout, to be published by ACRL Press.</span></p><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><ul style="font-size:small;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Your participation will involve approximately 5-10 minutes of your time filling out an anonymous web survey.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">While there are no known risks to completing the survey, you are allowed to skip questions that make you uncomfortable.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Participation in this survey will not benefit you directly, but may benefit others by providing useful information for professionals who are dealing with academic librarian burnout and/or a lack of positive leadership or non-supportive workplace culture.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-var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nitial;color:rgb(0,102,0);font-size:10.5pt"><em><br></em></span></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px;margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;color:rgb(0,102,0);font-size:10.5pt"><img src="http://home.manhattan.edu/collegerelations/email_logo.jpg" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><em><br></em></span></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px;margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;color:rgb(0,102,0);font-size:10.5pt"><em><br></em></span></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px;margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;color:rgb(0,102,0);font-size:10.5pt">Manhattan College, O'Malley Library<br>Technical Services, Rm 308<br>4513 Manhattan College Parkway<br>Riverdale, NY 10471<br>718-862-7997<br><a href="mailto:susanne.markgren@manhattan.edu" target="_blank">susanne.markgren@manhattan.edu</a></span></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px;margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;color:rgb(0,102,0);font-size:10.5pt"><em><br></em></span></div><p style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px;margin:0in 0in 0pt"><br></p></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></font></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>