2024 NC LIVE Annual Conference Virtual Keynote with Meredith G. Farkas
If the pandemic taught us anything, it’s that our neoliberal and individualistic achievement society is not designed to support the common good. Achievement culture encourages us to chase external validation by putting the focus on innovation and competition over collaboration and collective care. Many of these dynamics are at play in our own profession, leading to toxic cultures of scarcity, low morale, burnout, and significant harm to BIPOC library workers and patrons. We have the power to imagine new futures that will equip us to better serve our patrons and support our collective well-being. Slow librarianship focuses on relationship-building in our communities, values-driven work, quality over quantity, solidarity, antiracism, and reflective practice. Meredith Farkas will describe slow librarianship, how it connects to wellness, and how we can adopt slow practices to create healthier organizations.
Meredith Farkas (she/her) is a faculty librarian at Portland Community College in Oregon, a perpetual beginner, and a recovering workaholic. From 2007-2021, she wrote the “In Practice” column for American Libraries, focusing on accessible technologies, collaboration, values-driven work, antiracism, and reflective practice. She has also authored the blog Information Wants to be Free since 2004. Meredith has been in many different leadership and management roles throughout her career, but her favorite role is working with students and faculty as an instruction librarian.
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