Document Type
Article
Date
3-21-2022
Keywords
Emotional labor, school librarianship, close reading
Language
English
Acknowledgements
The author thanks Rachel Ivy Clarke for her invaluable feedback and intrepid support throughout this project.
Published version at Journal of Library Administration:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01930826.2022.2043690
Disciplines
Library and Information Science
Description/Abstract
Although emotional labor—defined as the process(es) by which a worker manages their feelings in order to produce the desired emotional response in a customer—has been studied in various fields and specific domains of librarianship, this topic has yet to be examined in school librarianship. In this exploratory article, I perform a close reading of school librarian job postings to surface expectations of emotional labor and explicate connections to the feminized history of librarianship. The article closes with a call to action, outlining steps for administrators and researchers to prevent the potential harms of emotional labor in school librarianship.
ISSN
0193-0826
Recommended Citation
Grimm, Alexandra, "Problematic Expectations: Using Close Reading to Surface Emotional Labor in School Librarian Job Postings" (2022). School of Information Studies - Post-doc and Student Scholarship. 10.
https://surface.syr.edu/ischoolstudents/10
Source
submission
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Additional Information
This is a post-print version of :
Alexandra Grimm (2022) Problematic Expectations: Using Close Reading to Surface Emotional Labor in School Librarian Job Postings, Journal of Library Administration, DOI: 10.1080/01930826.2022.2043690