Enhance Your Library, Enhance Your Well-Being

How to Fight Burnout and Reclaim Library Joy

Enhance Your Library, Enhance Your Well-Being

How to Fight Burnout and Reclaim Library Joy

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Learn, step-by-step, how to avoid or navigate burnout and reclaim the joy of the library profession while making a deep impact in your service community.

In the face of burnout caused by book bans, program challenges, and waning resources, how can library workers sustain their own mental well-being and enjoyment of the profession, while continuing to offer top-notch programs and services to their community?

Reframing your outlook on librarianship and community service is the key to reclaiming “library joy.” This book educates library workers at all levels on how to identify their own passions and a community need, then put it all together to build a bridge between interest and impact. Professional fulfillment is part of this journey, making this advice beneficial to both experienced and novice library workers. This hands-on workbook includes library program worksheets and evaluation quizzes for library staff use, all developed to support the reclamation of library joy.

Foreword, Matthew Noe (Harvard Medical School, USA)
Acknowledgements

Introduction
1. Why Are We Here?
2. Craft the Pitch, Understand the Formula
3. The Formula in Action
4. Preparing for Project Success
5. Evaluate and Repeat
6. Burnout
7. Finding (Your) Joy
8. Professional Joy
9. Conclusion

Appendix A. Library Project Exercises
Appendix B. Mental Health Exercises
Appendix C. Career-Seeking Resources

Bibliography
Index

Product details

Published	20 Aug 2026
Format	Paperback
Edition	1st
Extent	176
ISBN	9798216195450
Imprint	Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited
Dimensions	235 x 156 mm
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Monica J. Barrette

Moni Barrette is the Director of Collection Develo…

Library joy means so, so much to me. For other library professionals to begin using the phrase is mind blowing. To see it paired with burnout gives me great joy. What a proud day for someone to be in a position to reclaim their joy, library joy or any sort of joy. Burnout is very real, and is looked at as something that will happen instead of something we can prevent from happening. This book is vital to mental health and libraries. It is not the definitive answer, rather it is just as an importantly a guide to help you find the answers as you seek your joy (why not library joy?).

Mychal Threets, Librarian/Author
Moni's book helps readers find joy in their work and in themselves, recognizing and reducing burnout while also enriching library services. This book will assist library workers at all levels to develop a deeper understanding of themselves and their work, along with healthy boundaries and self-compassion. Highly recommended for any librarian struggling to find the joy in their work!

Shannon M. Oltmann, Associate Dean & Director, School of Information Sciences, Wayne State University