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Disability, Identity, and Professionalism: Precarity in Librarianship
Library Trends ( IF 0.474 ) Pub Date : 2019-01-01 , DOI: 10.1353/lib.2019.0006
Christine M. Moeller

Abstract:Although the field of disability studies has examined disability across many contexts, the experience of library workers remains largely unexamined. Library literature tends to focus on the experiences of library users, rather than address the structural inequities in the profession itself. In the United States, current conversations within higher education and academic librarianship around resilience and professionalism create additional barriers to inclusion and exclude the lived experiences of those with disabilities. Additionally, existing processes designed to address disability treat its existence as a problem in need of a solution, and in doing so, further contribute to the workplace precarity experienced by library workers. Instead of maintaining existing systemic barriers and perpetuating an ableist professional ideal that places responsibility on the individual to be resilient, libraries and library workers need to redefine professionalism, minimize the stigma associated with any type of disability, and reduce precarity for disabled library employees. Only then can libraries and library workers focus on equity and inclusion for all.

中文翻译:

残疾,身份认同和专业精神:图书馆事业的car可危

摘要:尽管残疾研究领域已经在许多情况下研究了残疾问题,但是图书馆工作者的经验仍然没有得到检验。图书馆文献往往侧重于图书馆用户的体验,而不是解决行业本身的结构性不平等。在美国,目前在高等教育和大学图书馆管理机构中有关韧性和专业精神的对话为包容和排斥残疾人的生活经验创造了更多障碍。此外,旨在解决残疾问题的现有流程将其存在视为需要解决的问题,并且在这样做的过程中,进一步加剧了图书馆工作者所面临的工作场所不稳定问题。图书馆和图书馆工作人员不仅要保持现有的系统性障碍并保持使个人承担责任的能力强的职业理想,还要重新定义职业素养,最大程度地减少与任何类型的残疾相关的污名,并减少对残疾图书馆工作人员的不稳定性。只有这样,图书馆和图书馆工作人员才能集中精力实现所有人的平等和包容。
更新日期:2019-01-01
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