Registration for 2026 CALM opens Monday, April 13 at 12 noon Eastern time 🎉
www.conferenceonacademiclibrarymanagement.com #LibCALM

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Have you submitted your proposal yet? We want to hear from you! forms.gle/RkQUcyhL3NbH... #LibCALM

CALM 2026 Call for Proposals The Conference on Academic Library Management (CALM) will take place May 12-14 2026. The CALM Program Planning Committee invites proposals for virtual presentations that inform and inspire the practic...

Call for CALM 2026 proposals now live! forms.gle/RkQUcyhL3NbH...

We look forward to seeing your proposals for virtual presentations that inform and inspire the practice and application of management and leadership in academic libraries!

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We are happy to share that our Call for Volunteers for CALM 2026 is now open! From now until August 22 at noon Eastern time, you can volunteer for 5 different committees or to be a proposal reviewer. Visit www.conferenceonacademiclibrarymanagement.com/volunteer for more information! #LibCALM

#LibCALM presentations here

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Didn't get a chance to attend CALM 2024, or trying to remember that great idea you heard from the conference? We've started uploading the recorded sessions to our YouTube channel, so check them out! Happy viewing! #LibCALM www.youtube.com/@calmconfere...

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And that's a wrap for CALM 2024! Thanks so much to everyone for attending, for all of your engagement! We appreciate the time you took to join us this week. Stay tuned as we continue our work behind the scenes, including sharing recordings and other resources later! #LibCALM

Once again CALM was such a great conference with inspiring keynotes! I have a lot of notes to review, ideas to process, and resources to read (or at least leave in a tab to mean to read for six months)! #LibCALM @calmconference.bsky.social

How can we be caregiver allies at work? Value all caregivers, ask don't assume, take paternity leave, lead with transparency, and be curious. Remember: Rosalynn Carter's quote on caregivers and how represent and relate to the four kinds of people in the world. #LibCALM

Some proposed solutions for equitable hybrid work: Regular 1:1s, clear criteria for promotion, formal mentoring programs. Think about what you are doing, and how may be advantaging/disadvantaging in-person vs. hybrid workers. #LibCALM

Where Are the Mothers? | Nieman Reports e’re having a bit of a baby boom,” says Lauren Williams, executive editor of Vox.com and the mother of an 18-month-old. When the news startup began in 2014, there wasn’t a single parent working at the...

On attracting and retaining millennial journalists: Katherine's NiemanReports article: "Where Are the Mothers?" (which examines attracting and retaining newsroom workers) niemanreports.org/articles/whe... #LibCALM

The Work-From-Home Revolution Is Also a Trap for Women They’ve gained all the perks that come with flexibility, but have also become one-woman safety nets.

Another resource! CALM 2022 keynoter @annehelen.bsky.social's @bloomberg.com article: "The Work-From-Home Revolution Is Also a Trap for Women." www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... #LibCALM

Quoting sociologist Jessica Calarco: "Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women." #LibCALM

Positive Economic Data Is Hiding Bleak Reality for Families While the U.S. economy seems to have dodged a recession, many families are struggling without reliable, affordable childcare.

Regarding the lack of infrastructure to support caregivers and families, Katherine mentions her recent TIME article: "Positive Economic Data Is Still Hiding Bleak Reality for Families." #LibCALM time.com/6967551/u-s-...

Katherine quotes Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter: "There are only four kinds of people in the world: those who have been caregivers, those who are currently caregivers, those who will be caregivers and those who will need caregivers." #LibCALM

Four hands gently resting over each other in black and white. The title reads: Our Job to Care: Bold Ideas & Concrete Solutions for Caregivers at Work with Katherine Goldstein.

We're wrapping CALM 2024 at 3:30 ET with our closing session and keynote! We're pleased to welcome our Katherine Goldstein of The Doubleshift (www.thedoubleshift.com/about) for her talk "Our Job to Care: Bold Ideas and Concrete Solutions for Caregivers at Work." #LibCALM

Nine outlines of BIPOC women arranged in a square of three rows and three columns. The title reads: BIPOC-Only Session | Stuck in the Middle: Women of Color Middle Managers and Their Experiences in Academic Libraries With Treshani Perera, Sherise Kimura. and Kristyn Seo Taff.

Four stone-like shapes in muted peach, salmon, tan, and green, with an off-white title square in front of them. The title reads: Emergent Strategy and Radical Library Management & Engagement With Roxane Pickens.

Colorful drawn flowers and leaves in orange, green, pink, and violet, framing each of the corners. The title reads: Human-Centered Approaches to Supervisors and Managers Supporting Accommodations in Libraries With Abigail L. Phillips and Dustin Fife.

Four peach flowers with a few tiny pink flowers and peach and blue dots emerging from on top of them, against a deep navy background. The title reads: Support in All the Right Places: An Empathic Approach to Tenure With Sandy Hervieux and Katherine Hanz.

Our next set of concurrent sessions start at 2:15pm ET! On the docket are a BIPOC-only session on women of color managers, emergent strategy and radical library management, human-centered approaches to supporting accommodations, and empathetic approaches to tenure. #LibCALM

A string being threaded through a sewing needle against a dark plum background. The title reads: Threading the Needle: Communicating Library Budget Information Up and Down the Chain of Command With Jonathan Shank.

Soft pink flowers gently falling against a faded background. The title reads: Reimagining the Search Experience of Internal Candidates with Ethics of Care With Merinda McLure, Wendy Holliday, and Kaetrena Davis Kendrick.

A bright watercolor painting with swaths of yellow, fuchsia, and teal, with a white circle in the center. The title reads: Everything Everywhere All At Once: How to Tackle Interim Leadership Responsibilities for Beginners With Heather Cyre.

A lime-yellow circle framed with two shades of light blue, emerging from the bottom like a sunset against a medium blue background. The title reads: From Individual to Collective: Applying Person-Centered Management in Unionized Libraries With Joanna Messer Kimmitt.

Time for day 3! Our first set of sessions today at 1:00pm ET will be covering openly communicating library budgets, reimagining the search experience of internal candidates, navigating interim leadership roles, and person-centered management in unionized libraries. #LibCALM

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Hot dog! We've been receiving pictures of SO MANY #LibCALM fur babies already! Post and tag your any pets who've been joining us this week with #PetsOfCALM and we'll gather as many as we can to feature them in our closing session! 🐶😺🐐

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In addition to #redux2024, #LibCALM & #ELUNA2024 (Ex Libris Users of North America) continuing today, National Acquisitions Group (NAG) Collection Development Group #NAGcd14 & Public Libraries Forum #NAGplf24 have BlueSky content to follow. So many library conferences this week!

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And that's a wrap for #LibCALM day 2! We look forward to seeing everyone tomorrow at 1:00pm ET for our next set of sessions! Hope everyone has a great evening!

@dleebaw.bsky.social I'm in your session right now! #LibCALM

(And I'm a neighbor over across the river in ND, too!)

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We're halfway through CALM and folks have been sharing a wealth of resources already! Join our CALM Resources Zotero to add and find more to learn! (Once you log in and join the group, go to the CALM 2024 folder for this year's resources.) www.zotero.org/groups/50781... #LibCALM

"Remember that interview's an inherently embodied practice and search committee are recruiting a whole person with a body not just the intellectual capacities of a person to fill an open role. So to care for that whole person instead of just their body is the thing."

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"So we propose a shift in organizational culture to care about whole people as a matter of policy and to let that underpin all the choices we make as a result to the extent that we can." (Sarah Fancher)

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A hunter green background with three white lines swirling within it. The title reads: Change is Hard when the System Rewards the Privileged: Inclusive Interviewing as a Feminist Practice With Amanda Albert, Rebecca Hyde, Jamie Emery, and Sarah Fancher.

Tall trees within a forest, with faint rays of sunlight peeking through. The title reads: Retention Through Empathy: An Invitation to Compassionate Progressive Discipline With Jessica Garner and Kate Coates.

The top of a mountain range looking out upon a cloudy, sunset sky. The title reads: Meaningful Work & Librarian Agency: Exploring Job Control Among Academic Instruction Librarians With Matthew Weirick Johnson.

An expanse of orangey clouds against a sunlit, light purple sky. The title reads: Talking Honestly and Compassionately About Retirement With Joanna Messer Kimmitt.

We have four sessions on the docket at 2:30pm ET! They'll address embedding feminist practice into interviewing, retention through compassionate progressive discipline, exploring job control among instruction librarians, and supporting colleagues approaching retirement. #LibCALM

"They really answered their email on time is not what we think of" when someone dies.

Absolutely!

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"Do less when positions are unfilled." We cannot do more with less. We can't, and we need to stop saying that we can or that we will. If we need more people, we need more people.

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"If you don't have time to write an agenda for a meeting, maybe it is not the right time to have a meeting." (Shanti Freundlich) #LibCALM

I'm listening to my #LibCALM sessions so hard today that I keep forgetting to post about it!