Libraries and Family: Is the Academic Library Community Supporting You?

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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.

Libraries and Family: Is the Academic Library Community Supporting You?

Conference Track

Keywords

Learning Objectives

Abstract

Presenters

Jaclyn Bedoya, California State University Fullerton

Margaret Heller, Loyola University Chicago

May Yan, Ryerson University

Christina Salazar, CSU Channel Islands