Stress Management and Preventing Burnout
A Library 2.0 Masterclass with Loida Garcia-Febo
OVERVIEW:
Burnout, fatigue, and chronic stress are increasingly common challenges for library professionals across all library types. Ongoing staffing shortages, expanding responsibilities, emotional labor, and the pressure to navigate complex information and social environments can place sustained demands on librarians’ time, energy, and focus. Although burnout is considered an occupational phenomenon rather than a medical condition, its effects can significantly impact well-being and professional engagement.
This masterclass offers a practical and accessible framework for understanding how stress, fatigue, and burnout develop and interact over time. Participants will learn to recognize how these experiences may present differently for each individual and how ongoing stress can gradually lead to exhaustion or disengagement if left unaddressed.
Through guided reflection and structured activities, attendees will engage in focused sections that support self-awareness and skill-building. These include personal check-ins, identifying stressors that contribute to burnout and fatigue, and learning adaptable strategies to manage stress, maintain energy, and build resilience. The session emphasizes practical tools that can be applied immediately and adjusted as professional demands change.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
- Understand the relationship between burnout, fatigue, and chronic stress
- Complete personal self-assessments related to burnout and fatigue
- Identify individual stressors contributing to ongoing stress and burnout
- Recognize early warning signs of stress overload
- Learn practical strategies to manage stress and prevent burnout
- Explore adaptable self-care and mindfulness techniques
- Develop a personalized stress and burnout management toolbox
The recording and presentation slides will be available to all who register.
DATE: Thursday, January 29th, 2025, 2:00 - 3:00 pm US - Eastern Time
COST:
- $99/person - includes live attendance and any-time access to the recording and the presentation slides and receiving a participation certificate. To arrange group discounts (see below), to submit a purchase order, or for any registration difficulties or questions, email admin@library20.com.
TO REGISTER:
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SPECIAL GROUP RATES (email admin@library20.com to arrange):
- Multiple individual log-ins and access from the same organization paid together: $75 each for 3+ registrations, $65 each for 5+ registrations. Unlimited and non-expiring access for those log-ins.
- The ability to show the webinar (live or recorded) to a group located in the same physical location or in the same virtual meeting from one log-in: $299.
- Large-scale institutional access for viewing with individual login capability: $499 (hosted either at Learning Revolution or in Niche Academy). Unlimited and non-expiring access for those log-ins.
Loida Garcia-Febo is a Puerto Rican American librarian and International Library Consultant with 25 years of experience as an expert in library services to diverse populations and human rights. President of the American Library Association 2018-2019. Garcia-Febo is worldwide known for her passion about diversity, communities, sustainability, innovation and digital transformation, library workers, library advocacy, wellness for library workers, and new librarians about which she has taught in 44 countries. In her job, she helps libraries, companies and organizations strategize programs, services and strategies in areas related to these topics and many others. Garcia-Febo has a Bachelors in Business Education, Masters in Library and Information Sciences.
Garcia-Febo has a long history of service with library associations. Highlights include- At IFLA: Governing Board 2013-2017, Co-Founder of IFLA New Professionals, two-term Member/Expert resource person of the Free Access to Information and Freedom of Expression Committee of IFLA (FAIFE), two-term member of the Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning Section of IFLA (CPDWL). Currently: CPDWL Advisor, Information Coordinator of the Management of Library Associations Section. Currently at ALA: Chair, IRC United Nations Subcommittee, Chair Public Awareness Committee. Recently at ALA: Chair, Status of Women in Librarianship and Chair, ALA United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Task Force developing a multi-year strategic plan for ALA. Born, raised, and educated in Puerto Rico, Garcia-Febo has advocated for libraries at the United Nations, the European Union Parliament, U.S. Congress, NY State Senate, NY City Hall, and on sidewalks and streets in various states in the U.S.
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