Description: Integrating principles of “slowness" can play a key role in your growth, personally and professionally. Whether you're familiar with slow librarianship, looking to develop the skills to implement it, or aiming to enhance your library services along with the quality and fulfillment of your work as a librarian, Lorin Jackson, an experienced slow librarianship practitioner, is here to guide you through building a practice of slow librarianship.

 
Slow librarianship is a holistic framework that prioritizes forming connections by first centering the needs of a community (e.g. department, university, users, hospital, public collaborators, city/town) to ensure impactful, equitable services. Slow librarianship grounds us in a value set that, when enacted, enhances the well-being of employees and their relationships with their broader community. 

 
Learning Outcomes:

1. Define slow librarianship and state its major benefits.
2. Begin steps to develop an individual slow librarianship plan that mimics a professional development plan.
3. Reflect on your work in libraries and begin assessing how it could become more rooted in slow librarianship principles, such as prioritizing how to make your work more effective, sustainable, and inclusive.

Presenter: Lorin Jackson, MA, MI (she/they), is Assistant Director of the Holman Biotech Commons at the University of Pennsylvania and an adjunct professor at Syracuse University. Lorin has dedicated her career to advancing community building within the library field, particularly for those not traditionally granted the same access to libraries. She has extensive experience over the past fifteen years fostering antiracism practices in various educational and non-profit settings. She has authored several works focusing on the challenges and innovations in the field, particularly concerning critical librarianship, trauma-informed librarianship, equitable access, and inclusivity, and developing kind leadership practices in libraries. Recognized for her leadership, Lorin has received awards, including the President’s Award from the Medical Library Association in 2024 for her contributions to the Be Well Initiative.

 

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