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Identifying and dealing with microaggressions & workplace stress

IFLA/ALA is organizing a webinar on navigating workplace stress and microaggressions—verbal and non-verbal messages that are invalidating or demeaning

This is pertinent to all our members since our profession is service-oriented. We want to identify and name stressors and microaggressions, as well as employ various tools to mitigate the negative effects of these encounters. This webinar will provide you with a framework—mindfulness—that can be used to help process the often-fraught interactions that may take place in our libraries. It will be recorded, so register regardless of whether you can connect on 14 July (Tuesday), 11 pm in Singapore.

Live, virtual Library Carpentry classes during your time zone

There will be a series of Library Carpentry workshops, facilitated online by three instructors in our part of the world: Matthias Liffers from ARDC, Anton Angelo from University of Canterbury, Belinda Sta Maria from Monash University Malaysia, and Dong Danping from Singapore Management University. There will be one lesson offered each day, on 21, 23, 28, & 30 July, 10 am – 3 pm. Indicate your interest for a maximum of two workshops – limited seats per session!

Want more webinars?

Jessica Dai started a crowdsourced list of free webinars and training – geared towards academic library workers. There’s another similar listing for public library workers started by Crystal Chen. Both are editable, so contribute responsibly!

Edward Lim is part of the wonderful Training and Development committee at LAS. He serves on the standing committee of the IFLA Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning Section. He is the Business and Entrepreneurship Librarian at the University of Connecticut. Follow @BarbarianEd on Twitter and ask him anything.