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Summary:

The Mindful Librarian: Connecting the Practice of Mindfulness to Librarianship explores mindfulness, approaching it in such a way as to relate specifically to the many roles or challenges librarians face. Coinciding with the increased need to juggle a variety of tasks, technologies, ebooks, and databases, the new Association of College & Research Libraries Framework for Information Literacy, and the challenges faced by solo librarians in school libraries which have suffered cutbacks in help in recent years, the time is exactly right for this publication. The authors hope to be helpful in some small way towards improving the joy and quality of life that librarians and library science students experience in their personal lives and jobs. The loftier goal would be to create a new lens from which to view librarianship, having a transformative impact on readers, and opening a new dialog within the profession. The topic of mindfulness is not new; it has been connected to various religious traditions in a wide variety of ways for centuries, most notably Buddhism. In the latter part of the 20th century, however, a secular version was popularized largely by the work of Jon Kabat-Zinn and his work on MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) at the University of Massachusetts's Medical School. The medical benefits and the overall quality of life improvements from its adoption have exploded in recent years, in particular, the last two decades which have seen mindfulness traditions incorporated into education to a greater degree and with very positive results.

Table of Contents:

• 1 A Brief Introduction to Mindfulness: Origins, Science, the Brain, and Practice
• 2 The Mindfulness Movement in Education
• 3 Applying Mindfulness to the Undergraduate Research Process
• 4 The Association of College and Research Libraries Framework for Information Literacy: Connecting to Mindfulness
• 5 Mindful Reference Service
• 6 Building Mindful Relationships with Faculty
• 7 Mindful Library Leadership
• 8 The Solo Librarian.

Author/Creator:

Moniz, Richard , author

Contributors:

Eshleman, Joe , author

Henry, Jo , author

Slutzky, Howard , author

Moniz, Lisa , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The mindful librarian: connecting the practice of mindfulness to librarianship [by Moniz, R.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Mindful librarian [by Moniz, R.J.] (ISBN 0081005555; OCLC Number 921864789)

Related Series:

Chandos information professional series

Subjects:

Librarians

Mindfulness (Psychology)

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 215 pages).

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

Z682 .M665 2016eb

ISBNs:

9780081005613 (electronic bk.)
008100561X (electronic bk.)
0081005555 [Invalid]
9780081005552 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

939553125