Recipes for mindfulness in your library : supporting resilience and community engagement
Record details
- ISBN: 9780838917831
- ISBN: 0838917836
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Physical Description:
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xii, 132 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm - Publisher: Chicago : ALA Editions, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Part 1. Library as hub. Cultivating a "mindful medicine" ethos -- Accidentally sustainable -- The Be Project -- Providing a space to rest -- Part 2. Innovative services. Mindful McQuade -- Mindfulness experiences -- Craving quiet -- Part 3. Personal practice. Mindful and reflective writing as strategy -- Mindfulness is not a life hack -- Outreach for inreach -- Mindfully managing library teams -- Part 4. Teaching/research. Shifting the pace -- A persistent praxis -- Going with the flow -- Overcoming research anxiety. |
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Genre: | Case studies. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Camosun College Library.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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Interurban Library | Z 711 R327 2019 (Text) | 26040003380967 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Amer Library Assn
Mindfulness not only offers the possibility of a healthy life/career balance for librarians themselves, but in challenging times of rapid social change and uncertainty, it also represents a powerful way to build community resilience. In fact, mindfulness experiences can be structured to nurture the kind of civic engagement and discourse essential for library support. This collection explores a wide range of approaches that demonstrate how librarians have integrated mindfulness into their teaching, collections, services, programming, spaces, partnerships, and professional development. An inspirational idea generator for library administrators, marketers, and outreach staff, in this book the contributors delve into such mindful activities as using a work journal to practice reflective writing; mindful strategies for leading library teams; yoga and meditation groups at public libraries; helping students destress with a library Zen Zone; deploying digital resources to promote mindfulness; mindful scholarship at Minneapolis College; and overcoming research anxiety using a mindful approach.As more librarians commit to individual and sustained reflection and practices in their own lives, those approaches can expand to include the communities they serve. This collection offers more than a dozen in-depth examples of mindfulness in action. - American Library Association
As more librarians commit to individual and sustained reflection and practices in their own lives, those approaches can expand to include the communities they serve. This collection offers more than a dozen in-depth examples of mindfulness in action. - American Library Association
Mindfulness not only offers the possibility of a healthy life/career balance for librarians themselves, but in challenging times of rapid social change and uncertainty, it also represents a powerful way to build community resilience. In fact, mindfulness experiences can be structured to nurture the kind of civic engagement and discourse essential for library support. This collection explores a wide range of approaches that demonstrate how librarians have integrated mindfulness into their teaching, collections, services, programming, spaces, partnerships, and professional development. An inspirational idea generator for library administrators, marketers, and outreach staff, in this book the contributors delve into such mindful activities as
- using a work journal to practice reflective writing;
- mindful strategies for leading library teams;
- yoga and meditation groups at public libraries;
- helping students destress with a library Zen Zone;
- deploying digital resources to promote mindfulness;
- mindful scholarship at Minneapolis College; and
- overcoming research anxiety using a mindful approach.
As more librarians commit to individual and sustained reflection and practices in their own lives, those approaches can expand to include the communities they serve. This collection offers more than a dozen in-depth examples of mindfulness in action.
- Book News
This book brings together 15 stories by academic and other librarians from the US who integrate mindfulness into their teaching, collections, services, programming, spaces, partnerships, and professional development. They describe projects and experiences related to mindfulness and resilience and awareness; building a weekly meditation community in a library; a mindfulness education curriculum in public schools; restorative yoga programs; the use of exercise bikes, a meditation room, classes in mindfulness-based stress reduction and breath work, and other strategies; and mindfulness as a means to introduce students to metacognition for academic success. They also discuss personal practices by librarians, including mindful and reflective writing, using digital resources to promote mindfulness, and mindfully managing library teams, and teaching and research related to contemplative practices like journaling, mindfulness in teaching and mentoring, and a mindful approach to literature review searching. Annotation ©2019 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)