Self-Care for Library Administrators: Promoting Wellness to Battle the Impact of Stressors in the Workplace for You and Your Staff

Library professionals face numerous stressors in their work such as challenging patron behaviors, providing excellent customer service, and shrinking staff numbers and budgets. Those serving in an administrative position are faced with attempting to manage not only their own well-being, but those of the staff they supervise. Stressors in the library profession can lead to burn out, vicarious trauma, or other mental health concerns without the use of self-care strategies. Library administrators will benefit from learning ways to promote long-term wellness for themselves and their staff to continue to serve their community of users.

Attendees will be able to:
• Define self-care and why it matters in managing chronic stress
• Differentiate burnout, vicarious trauma, and other mental health concerns
• Develop effective self-care strategies
• Implement strategies to support staff in their self-care

Presenter: Dawn Behrend is the Interim Dean of the Libraries at Lenoir-Rhyne University. She holds a B.A. in Psychology, M.A. in Clinical Psychology, Master of Business Administration, and Master of Library Science. Ms. Behrend has worked for over 20 years as a Licensed Psychological Associate in addition to her career as an academic librarian. Ms. Behrend is currently serving as the President of the North Carolina Library Association. She is also active with the Association of College and Research Libraries for which she has served in leadership roles for several committees and sections.

The recording and handouts will be available on Niche Academy after the live event as well as our library of over 700 recorded sessions. To access Niche, go to:https://my.nicheacademy.com/floridalibrarywebinars

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