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Connecting Workplace Bullying to Domestic and Sexual Victim Advocate Burnout
(2024) Fleming-Trice, Trace; Davis, Curtis; Scott, Hannah
This study sought to identify the prevalence of workplace bullying within domestic and sexual violence organizations and how this work hazard impacts anti-violence advocates. Three questions were investigated: (1) Do domestic and sexual violence victim advocates experience workplace bullying within domestic and sexual violence organizations? (2) Does workplace bullying contribute to domestic and sexual violence victim advocate burnout? (3) If advocates do experience workplace bullying, in what ways do advocates experience the phenomena in their organizations? Data was collected from 55 advocates throughout the United States and Canada. 55.6% of the respondents reported workplace bullying experiences occurring within the last 10 years of their careers. Most often, supervisors were found to be bullies. Instances of racism and homophobia contributed to advocate bullying experiences as did a lack of support from Boards of Directors. Advocates also indicated instances of bullying occurring from organizational community partners. The study found that over 70% of respondents indicated that exposure to bullying did contribute to their career burnout. Several advocates shared that they had left the field of domestic and sexual violence victim advocacy altogether due to their bullying experiences. Various forms of workplace bullying tactics found on the modified Duluth Power and Control Wheel for workplace bullying were identified by the respondents. This research suggests the urgent need for increased awareness of workplace bullying within the domestic and sexual violence victim service industry, leadership training, and organizational policy change to address protecting advocates.
Book Review of Strictly for the Chickens by Frances Hamerstrom
(1981-03-01) Sandy, John H.
Subject Librarian Initiative at the University of Central Florida Libraries: Collaboration amongst Research & Information Services, Acquisitions & Collection Services, and the Office Scholarly Communication
(Purdue University, 2013) Arthur, Michael A.; Tierney, Barbara G.
At the University of Central Florida Libraries, the Research and Information Services Department, the Acquisitions and Collection Services Department, and the Office of Scholarly Communication are collaborating to create and support a new Subject Librarian Service Model that focuses on proactive outreach to faculty and students. Since January 2013, these three units have worked closely together to emphasize the importance of Subject Librarians becoming more fully integrated into the university infrastructure through increased subject liaison roles. This collaboration has involved realigning, refining, and emphasizing the importance of the Subject Librarians’ academic department and program assignments and training the librarians to perform informed outreach to advance collection development; scholarly communication; and faculty/student teaching, learning, and research.
Developing a Statewide Print Repository in Florida: The UCF Experience with FLARE
(Purdue University, 2013) Arthur, Michael A.; Zhang, Y.
Many academic libraries are struggling with collections size reaching or exceeding building capacity. Meanwhile, the movement of twenty-first-century libraries calls for user-centered space. The combination of these two factors has challenged libraries to identify ways to eliminate physical collections without losing access to content. The academic libraries in the State of Florida, including the University of Central Florida (UCF), have discussed and developed plans for a shared print repository for several years. For the past few years a statewide Shared Storage Task Force was convened with representation from the state university libraries, and eventually formed the Florida Academic Repository (FLARE) under the leadership of the University of Florida. In 2012, FLARE received the first large shipment from a participating library, the University of Miami. After a few months of active planning, UCF implemented its project preparing materials to send to FLARE and is poised to be the next library contributing to FLARE. As presented, the UCF FLARE project requires tremendous coordination and collaboration within the multiple units in the Technical Services Division at UCF and with the external FLARE Team in Gainesville. Policies and procedures were developed with guidance from the FLARE Team, and internal workflow was designed to ensure accurate processing. This presentation focused on providing an overview of the FLARE project with a specific focus on the UCF experience in selecting and processing materials.
Looking for Money in All the Right Places: How One Academic Library is Making Good Use of Grant Funds
(Purdue University, 2011) Arthur, Michael A.
In 2007, the Florida Legislature addressed the need for technology funding at the eleven state universities by amending the Florida Statutes. The change permitted each university to collect technology fees from students at the rate of 5% of tuition. The new fees went into effect with the fall term 2009-2010. The presentation at the Charleston Conference focused on the success the UCF Libraries has enjoyed in 2009 and 2010 in securing large awards for use in providing access to relevant content and outlining the key factors that have contributed to the overall results. Each university in Florida is able to determine the process for distribution of the funds. UCF administrators decided that the technology fee funds would be awarded through a competitive bid process. All UCF departments are invited to submit proposals and these are reviewed by a student panel. Winning proposals are ranked into one of three tiers based on the overall impact they will have on students at the University of Central Florida. The tier designation given to a proposal has an impact on when it will be funded. Located in Orlando, FL, and established in 1963, the University of Central Florida (UCF) has quickly grown in size and reputation. By fall 2010, the university had grown to 56,235 students making UCF the second largest public university in the United States. In 2010-2011, the UCF Libraries expended $6,040,023 on library resources. Over $400,000.00 of this total expenditure was a result of technology fee awards. Keys to developing winning proposals include matching the proposal to department and university priorities, outreach to faculty, librarians, publishers and vendors with an eye toward acquiring the most relevant content for the students and faculty. Analyzing usage and turn away data and working with publishers on pricing models that result in low cost per book or low cost per article is critical to developing a winning strategy.