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Kendrick Preconf Description:

The Renewal Seminar offers a pathway for individuals to increase their awareness of the associated frameworks, development, outcomes, and emerging countermeasures of low morale, which is defined as repeated and protracted exposure to workplace abuse and neglect (Kendrick, 2017). Learning more about these concerns can help promote authentic civility and collegiality in North American libraries and reduce the factors that can cause employee mistreatment and misconduct in library workplaces.

Through pre-assessments and reflections and on-site participation in targeted discussions, Seminar attendees will be able to:

• Understand the development the low morale experience;
• Evaluate the role of Library and Information Science (LIS)-based and workplace barriers to resolving low morale;
• Identify and consider leadership behaviors that decrease low morale in workplace environments; and
• Create and engage with a collegial community to increase best practices in applying workplace civility, honing humane leadership skills, and encouraging self-advocacy.

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Kaetrena Davis Kendrick

• Renewal: Promiting Civility and Self-Care in (Academic) Libraries

  
  Kaetrena Davis Kendrick earned her MSLS from the historic Clark Atlanta University School of Library and Information Studies. Her research interests include professionalism, ethics, racial and ethnic diversity in the LIS field, and the role of communities of practice in practical academic librarianship. She is co-editor of The Small and Rural Academic Library: Leveraging Resources and Overcoming Limitations (ACRL 2016) and author of two annotated bibliographies. Kendrick is currently serving as Dean of Ida Jane Dacus Library and Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections at Winthrop University.

In addition to her research and writing, Kendrick also leads professional development opportunities and organizational dialogues designed to energize employee morale and promote empathetic leadership in North American libraries. In her daily and long-term work, Kendrick has transformed library programs, services, and culture via creativity, leadership, and advocacy. In 2019, Kendrick was named the Association of College and Research Libraries' Academic/Research Librarian of the Year. Learn more about Kaetrena's mission and activities.