Work/Life Balance
March 13-14, 2013
Hosted by Leslie Burke and Robert Roose
Please join us for an e-forum discussion. It’s free and open to everyone!
Registration information is at the end of the message.
Each day, discussion begins and ends at:
Pacific: 6am – 5pm
Mountain: 7am – 6pm
Central: 8am – 7pm
Eastern: 9am – 8pm
Does “When Worlds Collide” describe how you feel about your life? Are
you desperately seeking a personal life without losing your job? Then
you may be experiencing a need for work/life balance. Please join us for
this two-day e-forum on work/life balance. Let us know what your
organization is doing to help employees maintain this delicate balance.
We welcome comments from employers as well as employees. What programs
and solutions are your employers providing? We would love to hear
stories and strategies of how you personally manage to keep work
responsibilities and life in balance. Please describe personal
strategies and stories that you have used to achieve a work/life
balance, whether supported by your organization or not.
We will be discussing the following topics:
- Does your workplace have programs (flex-time, maternity leave, child care) and a culture supporting work/life balance?
- What would you like to see your employer support that they currently do not support?
- As the employer, has there been a down side to supporting work/life balance programs?
- Do you think that libraries lead or follow when it comes to national work/life balance trends?
- How can organizations support work/life balance programs when some staff are union employees while others are not?
- Can managers benefit from work/life balance programs too?
- What happened to working 8-4 or 9-5? When did we move to being at
work 9 hours with a 1 hour lunch? Does that help or hinder work/life
balance?
- Has anyone successfully implemented job sharing? What were the hurdles and how were they overcome?
- Do your organizations offer health-related/wellness programs? How
do they work? Are wellness programs and work/life balance programs the
same?
- What are your organizations’ expectations regarding phone and email outside of your traditional work hours?
- Are you expected to participate in events that occur outside of your normal working hours?
- How does your employer handle the need to take care of family
issues (e.g. children sick or snow days, elder care, partner care)?
Leslie Burke is Collection Development and Digital
Integration Librarian at Kalamazoo College. She has worked at Kalamazoo
College since January 2012 handling serials, acquisitions, collection
development and e-resources. Prior to working at K, Leslie was an
Account Services Manager (a librarian-on-the-road) for EBSCO Information
Services for 11 ½ years, performing customer service, training, and
problem-solving and providing solutions to clients in the Midwest
states. Leslie was a corporate librarian for over a decade at Amway
Corporation, and a serials/acquisitions librarian at Western Theological
Seminary. Leslie has been active in SLA, Michigan Health Sciences
Library Association and other state and regional library groups. She has
presented at state and regional library conferences and at SLA Annual
conferences.
Robert Roose is the Support Services Manager at Spokane Public
Library in Spokane, Washington. He has worked in public services at
Renton Public Library (WA), Hobbs Public Library (NM) and both technical
services and public services at Jefferson County Library (WA). He is
active in the Washington Library Association.
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