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From: Lori Birrell <lori(a)birrell.us>
Date: Thu, Nov 7, 2019
Recognizing the demographic shifts in academic libraries, changing nature
of job descriptions to be more fluid and responsive to emerging trends, and
the ongoing issue of professional burn-out, there is a need to better
understand how librarians conceive and perceive the trajectories of their
career paths.
Principal investigators Lori Birrell and Marcy Strong have adopted the
Kaleidoscope
Career Model (Mainiero, et al), which uses three phases: *challenge*,
*authenticity*, and *balance*, as a non-linear approach to understanding
the mapping of career trajectories, agency and decision-making power to the
individual, rather than the organization, based on the person’s own values
and choices. Applying this model in the academic librarian context, we seek
to better understand where those pivot points exist for professionals, and
more broadly how these decisions impact their sense of satisfaction with
their career trajectories, and sense of support they receive from their
employers.
This survey contains questions about your experiences and/or feelings
concerning how you conceive of and perceive of your career path.
All academic librarians currently working in a professional role are
invited to participate in this study by responding to the survey linked
here:
https://uark.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9n2eqWXnJImxEYl. The survey
will remain open until November 12th.
Please email Lori Birrell at lori(a)birrell.us or Marcy Strong at
strongstuff(a)gmail.com with any questions you may have. Additional details
about the project can be found in the survey introduction.