Your life is happening now: what are you waiting for?
It’s a tremendous challenge for many of us to be fully present in the current moment. There’s a pull toward imagining the future and ruminating on the past – sometimes…
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Slow librarianship, slow food, politics, pleasure, and moderation
The Slow Food Manifesto begins with the following two sentences: “Our century, which began and has developed under the insignia of industrial civilization, first invented the machine and then took…
Slow management in a fast world
Last month, I had the great pleasure of keynoting the CALM (Conference on Academic Library Management) Conference, which is consistently one of my favorites. The video of my talk, Slow…
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Neoliberal Time and the Promise of Slow Librarianship
I've meant to post about this for a while, but one of the book chapters I wrote back in 2023-24 during my sabbatical has finally come out (the other is…
Strike time, collective action, and moral conviction in library leadership
I’m on strike right now, along with thousands of other faculty, academic professionals, and staff at Portland Community College (that's two unions, friends!). It’s a weird feeling. I never thought…
Posted inslow librarianship Work Work-life balance
When I surrendered to the current
One author whose newsletter I read avidly is Dr. Zed Zha. In Ask the Patient, she writes about holding on to humanity and humility as a health care provider and…
The double life of being chronically ill at work, slow librarianship, and checking in as an expression of care
Developing a long-term illness, whether chronic or acute, is like being dropped into a country completely unfamiliar to you. You don’t know the language, the customs, the cuisine, the people.…
