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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
![[photo]](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8776a22ede94bc86d5fcc7a6dca072b1.png?d=https://proposalspace.com/images/no_photo.png&r=PG&s=50 "Jaclyn Bedoya, California State University Fullerton")
Jaclyn Bedoya, California State University Fullerton
![[photo]](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8e7e8be05cadc1b680d40569ec3fcec8.png?d=https://proposalspace.com/images/no_photo.png&r=PG&s=50 "Margaret Heller, Loyola University Chicago")
Margaret Heller, Loyola University Chicago
![[photo]](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ca49c1bb277efd0ccad157fe68211510.png?d=https://proposalspace.com/images/no_photo.png&r=PG&s=50 "May Yan, Ryerson University")
May Yan, Ryerson University
![[photo]](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ebd71da0584bcba64d8eb5c1dcca95a6.png?d=https://proposalspace.com/images/no_photo.png&r=PG&s=50 "Christina Salazar, CSU Channel Islands")