Day/time: Monday, May 5, 2025, 4:00 p.m. to 5 p.m. EDT
Cap: 40 attendees
Presenters:
- Erin Jerome, Library Publishing & Institutional Repository Librarian, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Anne Cong-Huyen, Research & Engagement Librarian for Humanities & Social Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Esther Jackson, Scholarly Communication Technologies Librarian, Columbia University
- Kathryn Pope, Digital Repository Manager, Columbia University
Description: “Boundaries are good for everyone.” Veronica Arrellano Douglass
This session, facilitated by librarians and library staff supporting digital publishing programs within academic libraries, discusses the role of labor, relationships, and care in the provisioning of services to our academic communities through the frameworks of Human-Centered Leadership (HCL) and Relational-Cultural Theory (RCT). By their nature, library publishing programs may be small, run by staff supporting many other library programs, and are often competing for inter-libraries development resources and technical support. Boundaries are an essential communication mechanism and management tool used to maintain healthy relationships, safeguard against staff burnout, and protect space needed for program and service growth.
The session facilitators will reflect on the importance of boundaries, defined within RCT as “a place of growth and productivity rather than restriction and separation,” for establishing and maintaining manageable publishing programs with respectful constraints that center the needs of the people involved: academic staff, students (graduate and undergraduate), and faculty. (Schwartz 39)
After prepared comments, attendees will join facilitated breakout rooms to discuss their experiences with boundary-setting.
Works Cited
Arrellano, Veronica. “Boundaries as Meeting Places.” Presentation. CALM 2023 Conference.
Schwartz, Harriet. Connected Teaching: Relationship, Power, and Mattering in Higher Education Routledge: New York. (2019)
Marone, Mark. (2024) “How Human-Centered Leadership Helps People Adapt to Change,” Harvard Business Publishing