1st Edition
Libraries as Dysfunctional Organizations and Workplaces
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Dysfunction in the Library Workplace
Spencer Acadia and Kyndal Vogt
Chapter 2: The Dysfunctional Library and Academic Librarian Turnover
Amanda Foster Kaufman, Amy F. Fyn, Millicent Weber and Christina Heady
Chapter 3: Improving Dysfunctional Recruitment and Retention in Academic Libraries by Honoring the Whole Person
Erica Lopez
Chapter 4: Precarity Doesn’t Care: Precarious Employment as a Dysfunctional Practice in Libraries
Adena Brons, Chloe Riley, Ean Henninger and Crystal Yin
Chapter 5: Discrimination as Dysfunction: Why do Libraries Have a Problem with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion?
Briana Zaragoza and T. Gonzalez
Chapter 6: Workplace Dysfunction and Intellectual Freedom in Public Libraries
Miranda Doran-Myers and Crystal Schimpf
Chapter 7: The Saboteur in the Academic Library
Kate Dohe, Celia Emmelhainz, Maura Seale and Erin Pappas
Chapter 8: "Put the Fucking Salary in the Job Ad!": An Analysis of an Anonymous Corpus of Tweets
Tim Ribaric
Chapter 9: You are Seen: An Analysis of Library Dysfunction Found in Online Memes
Éthel Gamache and Spencer Acadia
Chapter 10: A Descriptive Study of Workplace Bullying in U.S. Libraries during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Carol Anne Geary and Spencer Acadia
Chapter 11: Work Alienation in Academic Libraries: A Marxist Analysis of Library Dysfunction
Zorian M. Sasyk
Chapter 12: Bamboo Ceiling Reframed: Exclusion through Social Practices and Structures in Libraries
Silvia Vong
Chapter 13: Combating Destruction: Organizational Power and Conflict in Academic Libraries
Sara Parme and Amy Pajewski
Chapter 14: Dysfunction by (Dis)organization: The Academic Library within University Structure and Organization
Jasmine Hoover
Biography
Spencer Acadia is an assistant professor in the Research Methods and Information Science Department at the University of Denver, U.S.A.
