Whether you're an administrator or library leader concerned about
the health and well-being of your team, or a library worker excited
to launch a health and wellness movement in your library, you'll
find sensible guidance and inspiration in Newman's handbook.As part
of their dedication to improving the lives of their patrons,
libraries have long offered services, programs, and outreach
dedicated to the health and wellness of their communities. There is
a growing recognition that library workers themselves are in urgent
need of such attention; low morale, and complaints of burnout and a
toxic work environment, are only a few of the obvious symptoms. The
good news is that by turning inward, libraries can foster wellness
in their workplace and make a real difference in the day-to-day
lives of their staff. Newman, who has led a popular course on the
subject attended by workers from many types of different libraries,
here takes a holistic approach to examine why and how libraries
should focus on improving the health and wellness of employees.
Filled with hands-on advice, examples of successful initiatives,
and suggested action steps, in this book readers will learn: How to
define health and wellness, including its physical, psychological,
and social aspects, and why they touch upon nearly everything that
happens in the workplace. What a workplace looks like when it
strives to ensure the complete physical, mental, and social
well-being of workers, and the ways in which this approach to a
work environment benefits both the library and the community it
serves; the role played by the physical aspects of the workplace,
such as the ergonomics of sitting and standing desks, the effects
of air quality and smell on worker health and productivity, and
noise levels stemming from open plan workspaces. About key policies
relating to wages, working schedules, where employees work, and
child and elder care. Real-world advice on addressing complicated
workplace issues like emotional and invisible labor, with a look at
the part that burdensome or indifferent policies and practices can
play in contributing to compassion fatigue and burnout. Ways to
make healthy choices for oneself and encourage healthy choices in
co-workers and staff; concrete, evidence-based steps that libraries
can take to improve workplace wellness. How to make a lasting
difference by focusing on one aspect they can change personally and
one that they can advocate changing library wide.
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