Let's Not Burn-out! CALL Conference Registration Open

Thursday, January 31, 2019

It is our distinct pleasure to invite you to the third Conference About Libraries & Learning (C.A.L.L.). The conference is a collaboration between UW-La Crosse Murphy Library, the School District of La Crosse & La Crosse Public Library and will take place on the UW-La Crosse campus on Thursday, January 31, 2019. Librarians from all types of libraries (school, public, academic, special, etc.) are welcome to attend.

Register here to attend the C.A.L.L. conference on Jan. 31, 2019

• Cost to attend is $50.00 per person plus Eventbrite service fee
• The conference will take place in room 3310 of the UWL Student Union (campus map)
• Light breakfast and hot lunch is included in the cost of attendance
• For questions regarding the C.A.L.L. conference, registration, parking, or any other campus access issues please contact Liz Humrickhouse at ehumrickhouse@uwlax.edu

Service runs through a librarian’s work day. We know it from day one going in to the field. We expect to be tired at the end of a day, week, program, or semester. Patrons, students, community members or administration turn to us for answers, help, expertise, reassurance, and a friendly smile.

So let’s talk about burnout. What do we do when we have barely anything left to give, when we’re at the end of the rope, when we feel emotionally drawn and the tanks of compassion are running on empty? Is there any space in our work lives to recognize that sometimes we feel unprepared for the realities of managing and regulating the requirements of emotional labor of librarianship? Let’s talk about it.

For this year’s C.A.L.L. conference, we are going to explore ideas and techniques, both urgent on-the-spot, and intentional techniques to cultivate when time allows.

We are excited to invite presenters on the following topics of interest that may include, but are not limited to:

• Techniques to combat compassion fatigue in the workplace
• How to emotionally support one another professionally
• Techniques to de-escalate emotionally charged interactions:  librarian to patron and colleague to colleague
• Workplace practices to nurture self-care