Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-21-2021

Journal Title

The Journal of Academic Librarianship

Volume

4

Number

3

Abstract

In recent years there has been growing interest in the integration of contemplative practices into higher education, but little has been published regarding contemplative practices or contemplative pedagogies in academic libraries. Nor have explicit links been made to critical librarianship (critlib), particularly regarding the stress associated with the profession and the “resilience narrative” of “doing more with less”. In this paper, we review the literature and describe our experiences introducing a variety of contemplative elements into our library instruction program, most recently in the virtual environment. Building on the three levels of “intervention” modeled by Barbezat and Bush (2014) to include librarians, and incorporating critlib theory, we describe the contemplative practices we have used to alleviate librarian, student, and faculty stress and burnout, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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