Subject: ALCTS E-Forum: Work/Life Balance, March 13-14
From: ALCTS-CE Announce <alcts.ce.announce_at_gmail.com>
Date: 3/5/2013 8:06 AM
Work/Life Balance
March 13-14, 2013
Hosted by Leslie Burke and Robert Roose
Please join us for an e-forum discussion. It’s free and open to everyone!
Registration information is at the end of the message.
Each day, discussion begins and ends at:
Pacific: 6am – 5pm
Mountain: 7am – 6pm
Central: 8am – 7pm
Eastern: 9am – 8pm
Does “When Worlds Collide” describe how you feel about your life? Are
you desperately seeking a personal life without losing your job? Then
you may be experiencing a need for work/life balance. Please join us for
this two-day e-forum on work/life balance. Let us know what your
organization is doing to help employees maintain this delicate balance.
We welcome comments from employers as well as employees. What programs
and solutions are your employers providing? We would love to hear
stories and strategies of how you personally manage to keep work
responsibilities and life in balance. Please describe personal
strategies and stories that you have used to achieve a work/life
balance, whether supported by your organization or not.
We will be discussing the following topics:
Does your workplace have programs (flex-time, maternity leave, child
care) and a culture supporting work/life balance?
What would you like to see your employer support that they currently do
not support?
As the employer, has there been a down side to supporting work/life
balance programs?
Do you think that libraries lead or follow when it comes to national
work/life balance trends?
How can organizations support work/life balance programs when some staff
are union employees while others are not?
Can managers benefit from work/life balance programs too?
What happened to working 8-4 or 9-5? When did we move to being at work 9
hours with a 1 hour lunch? Does that help or hinder work/life balance?
Has anyone successfully implemented job sharing? What were the hurdles
and how were they overcome?
Do your organizations offer health-related/wellness programs? How do
they work? Are wellness programs and work/life balance programs the same?
What are your organizations’ expectations regarding phone and email
outside of your traditional work hours?
Are you expected to participate in events that occur outside of your
normal working hours?
How does your employer handle the need to take care of family issues
(e.g. children sick or snow days, elder care, partner care)?
Leslie Burke is Collection Development and Digital Integration Librarian
at Kalamazoo College. She has worked at Kalamazoo College since January
2012 handling serials, acquisitions, collection development and
e-resources. Prior to working at K, Leslie was an Account Services
Manager (a librarian-on-the-road) for EBSCO Information Services for 11
½ years, performing customer service, training, and problem-solving and
providing solutions to clients in the Midwest states. Leslie was a
corporate librarian for over a decade at Amway Corporation, and a
serials/acquisitions librarian at Western Theological Seminary. Leslie
has been active in SLA, Michigan Health Sciences Library Association and
other state and regional library groups. She has presented at state and
regional library conferences and at SLA Annual conferences.
Robert Roose is the Support Services Manager at Spokane Public Library
in Spokane, Washington. He has worked in public services at Renton
Public Library (WA), Hobbs Public Library (NM) and both technical
services and public services at Jefferson County Library (WA). He is
active in the Washington Library Association.
*What is an e-forum?*
An ALCTS e-forum provides an opportunity for librarians to discuss
matters of interest, led by a moderator, through the e-forum discussion
list. The e-forum discussion list works like an email listserv: register
your email address with the list, and then you will receive messages and
communicate with other participants through an email discussion. Most
e-forums last two to three days. Registration is necessary to
participate, but it's free. See a list of upcoming e-forums at:
http://bit.ly/upcomingeforum.
*To register:*
Instructions for registration are available at:
http://bit.ly/eforuminfo. Once you have registered for one e-forum, you
do not need to register again, unless you choose to leave the email
list. Participation is free and open to anyone.
Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee
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