ER&L 2015
February 22–25, 2015
Austin, Texas
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Libraries and Family: Is the Academic Library Community Supporting You?
Tuesday, February 24, 2015 at 3:15 PM–4:00 PM CST
Salon A/B
Conference Track
3. Organizational Strategies
Keywords
family, tenure-track
Learning Objectives
- After this session, participants will have a greater understanding of trends of parenting in academia.
- After this session, participants will be able to leverage tools to facilitate flexible working.
Abstract
Being a working parent is difficult. How should the academic library community - libraries, conferences, associations - support this significant portion of their workforce? After brief presentations laying out problems and offering some solutions/coping mechanisms, we hope to have a lively discussion with participants about this sometimes touchy subject.
Presenters
Jaclyn Bedoya, California State University Fullerton
Margaret Heller, Loyola University Chicago
May Yan, Ryerson University
Christina Salazar, CSU Channel Islands
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