Introduction
Section 1: Staying Engaged in Your Career
Chapter 1
Staying Engaged By Giving Back: The Librarian Parlor
Hailley Fargo, Nimisha Bhat, and Charissa Powell
Chapter 2
Boundaries and Breakthroughs: A Conversation on Maintaining
Engagement and Avoiding Burnout in Reference and Instruction
Sophie Leveque and Eamon Tewell
Chapter 3
The Service of Others: Providing and Growing from Informal
Mentorships at Mid-Career
Amanda Nichols Hess
Chapter 4
Choosing a Different Wall: Reimagining the Ladders in Your Life at
Mid-career
Caro Pinto and Elizabeth Galoozis
Chapter 5
An Academic Systems Librarian Reflects at Mid-career and Shares
Advice
Christina Hennessey
Chapter 6
The Doctorate: The Next Educational Step in Librarianship
Logan Rath and Carol Anne Germain
Chapter 7
Boredom and the Tenured Academic Librarian: How Being Bored is an
Essential Component of a Successful Career
Andrew Weiss
Section 2: The Role of Identity in Shaping Mid-career
Librarianship
Chapter 8
We Didn’t Know: How a Mid-career Research Project Taught Us about
Disability, Advocacy, and Ourselves
Lee Ann Fullington and Jill Cirasella
Chapter 9
A Community Cultural Wealth Model for Recognizing Strengths in Our
Lived Experiences
Silvia Vong
Chapter 10
Working Toward Promotion to Full Professor: Strategies, Time
Management, and Habits for Academic Librarian Mothers
Marta Bladek
Chapter 11
Self-Determination at Mid-career: Perils and Possibilities
Julie Adamo
Chapter 12
Learning to Thrive—Not Just Survive—as a Librarian with Mental
Illness
Andy Hickner
Section 3: Being Your Own Advocate
Chapter 13
Taking Care of Yourself When Your Job is Taking Care of Others:
Self-Care in a Service-Oriented Profession
Justin de la Cruz
Chapter 14
Considering a Change in Mid-career
Kathryn Machin and Danielle S. Apfelbaum
Chapter 15
Union Stewardship: A Space for Mid-career Librarian Leadership
Kate Thornhill, Ann Shaffer, and Elizabeth Peterson
Chapter 16
The Middle Path: Dealing with Boredom, Burnout, and Expectations
through Daily Meditation Practice
Khue Duong
Chapter 17
Addressing Incivility as a Mid-career Librarian: How to Advocate
for a Bully-Free Library
Megan Palmer, Rachel Keiko Stark, Maggie Albro, and Jenessa
McElfresh
Chapter 18
Don’t Go it Alone: The Restorative Power of Peer Relationships in
Mid-career Librarianship
Jamie L. Emery, Rebecca C. Hyde, Amanda B. Albert, and Sarah E.
Fancher
Section 4: To Lead or Not to Lead?
Chapter 19
The Benefits and Drawbacks of Moving into Management at
Mid-career
Danya Leebaw and Carissa Tomlinson
Chapter 20
Fighting Post-tenure Fatigue: Reclaiming Your Time and Redefining
Leadership
Nia Lam and Michelle McKinney
Chapter 21
Mid-career Decisions: Sharing Power, Promoting New Voices, and
Moving Forward
Kacy Lundstrom
Chapter 22
Frustration, Exhaustion, Determination: Why I’m Not Backing Down
from Library Leadership
Emily Mitchell
Chapter 23
Taking Advantage of Opportunities for Informal Leadership
Linda Miles and Susanne Markgren
Chapter 24
The Career Choices We Make: Balancing Ambition, Personal
Fulfillment, and Life as an Academic Librarian
Lis Pankl and Jason Coleman
Chapter 25
Leading from Between: Finding Meaning as a Third Space
Librarian
Heather Campbell
Chapter 26
Up and Out: How a Mid-career Librarian Advanced, Then Left Academic
Librarianship
Anonymous
Editor and Author bios
Brandon K. West (he/him) is the head of Research Instruction
Services and liaison to the social sciences at the State University
of New York at Geneseo’s Milne Library. His research interests
include examining the intersections of information literacy and
online learning, applying instructional design principles to
enhance student learning, and addressing LGBTQ+ issues in
libraries. He has a MEd in educational technology from Grand Valley
State University, a MLS from Texas Woman’s University, and a MS in
curriculum development from the University at Albany. He was
awarded the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Librarianship
in 2019. This is his third volume for ACRL Publications, with the
former being Creative Instructional Design: Practical Applications
for Librarians (2017) and Reflections on Practitioner Research: A
Practical Guide for Information Professionals (2020). His advice is
to not take your work home with you as often as possible and make
time for hobbies—your job is not a hobby. You will be a better
librarian if you allow yourself to decompress in your free
time.
Elizabeth Galoozis (she/her) is head of Information Literacy
and Student Engagement at the Claremont Colleges Library. Her
research interests include critical information literacy, feminist
pedagogy, and identity in the library workplace. Her work has
appeared in Library Quarterly, In the Library with the Lead Pipe,
Library Juice Press, and at ACRL, CALM, and LOEX conferences. She
is the co-editor, along with Carolyn Caffrey and Rebecca Halpern,
of Hidden Architectures of Information Literacy Programs:
Structures, Practices, and Contexts. Her creative work has been
published in Phoebe, Air/Light, Sinister Wisdom, and RHINO, among
others. She advises mid-career librarians to articulate their
personal values and come back to them when making decisions.
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