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“When They Go Low”: Preparing Information Professionals for Threats of Violence in Library Workplaces

Beth Patin (Syracuse University, USA)

Reading Workplace Dynamics: A Post-Pandemic Professional Ethos in Public Libraries

ISBN: 978-1-83797-071-1, eISBN: 978-1-83797-070-4

Publication date: 1 August 2024

Abstract

This chapter is a witness and testimony to epistemological issues that arose as virtual workplace violence in the form of Zoombombing during the increased use of the Zoom platform during the COVID-19 pandemic. An autoethnographic approach to the author’s experience as a library and information science scholar and public speaker conveys ways in which virtual violence on Zoom created visceral trauma of epistemicide. The autoethnography begs the question of how we actualize self-care virtually as well as socially in the LIS workplace.

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Acknowledgment

Thank you to Tyler Youngman for his careful editing and feedback and to the reviewers for strengthening this chapter.

Citation

Patin, B. (2024), "“When They Go Low”: Preparing Information Professionals for Threats of Violence in Library Workplaces", Irvin, V. and Mehra, B. (Ed.) Reading Workplace Dynamics: A Post-Pandemic Professional Ethos in Public Libraries (Advances in Librarianship, Vol. 55), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 51-60. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0065-283020240000055005

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Emerald Publishing Limited