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Libraries and Family: Is the Academic Library Community Supporting You?
martes, el 24 de febrero de 2015 a las 15:15–16:00 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.