Kaetrena
@kaetrena.bsky.social
Researcher | Leader | Consultant | Coach I help people recognize, reconcile, and recover from low-morale experiences. https://renewalslis.com
Earlier this summer I expanded my course, "Critical Hope & Self-Preservation in Contemporary Librarianship" to another iSchool! Check out the first in a series of Course Briefs that share learner activities & insights. First up: What are folks reading? Check out the booklist: tinyurl.com/5cusubpt
Been asked to do more with less? Blamed when you surface gaps? Shamed when you remind folks of your capacity? #TheresANameForThat #ResilienceNarratives. Read more about this concept, (explored by Berg, Galvan, and Tewell), which often surfaces during Low-Morale Experiences: tinyurl.com/r22hcdzw
If you're part of this year's Minnesota Institute or Library Leadership Ohio cohorts, I'm looking forward to meeting and learning with you this summer! #library #leaders #leadership #libraries
RenewersLIS@renewerslis.bsky.social · 2mo agoI'm excited to be working with LIS emerging leaders this summer!
🎉👇🤩🥲🎉#HurrayOfTheDay!!!!
RenewersLIS@renewerslis.bsky.social · 2mo agoRenewers, last year with @ionedammit.bsky.social, I shared a Call For Proposals for an edited book of #CriticalHope ethnographies in academic librarianship. With joy & gratitude, I'm happy to share that the manuscript has been submitted! Stay tuned as we prepare for the book's release!
It's National Library Week! As we celebrate libraries, don't forget to make some time for employee care and care practice. Next week, join Nicole A. Cooke, Jaena Alabi, & me for iREAL's "Considering Collective Care and Radical Empathy in Library Workplaces." Register at: tinyurl.com/yrr293kc
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Considering Collective Care and Radical Empathy in Library Workplaces. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
iREAL faculty members Jaena Alabi, Nicole Cooke, and Kaetrena Davis Kendrick will explore frameworks that identify barriers and pathways to care and empathy in library work and collegial networks. Att...
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Join me tomorrow morning to explore interruptions and invitiations to rest for library workers. I'm so honored to be collaborating with the Radical Empathy and Leadership (REAL) LAB, who is hosting this necessary conversation! Register today: tinyurl.com/3c83d5pb
Renewers, I'll be offering two talks next month! Register soon, and I hope to see you at either of these free community events. Be sure to repost or share this with a library worker who is exploring a rest or self-preservation reset! tinyurl.com/yst5ekyc
Hey Renewers - it's our anniversary. Check out the yearly update here: renewalslis.com/eight-years-...
Eight Years Up – Kendrick Consulting & Communications
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Renewers, check out the latest Black In The Stacks podcast episode. I join host Marquita Gooch for a candid conversation about navigating and recovering from workplace harm. Learn more about the episode and listen here: www.podbean.com/ew/pb-m8vh9-...
Hey Renewers, as the light grows, remember to turn your clocks back this weekend - and don't forget to join me for my March talks if you can! Learn more: tinyurl.com/afyyd74n
I'm overflowing(!) with joy to share that my course, Critical Hope & Self-Preservation in Contemporary Librarianship, will be offered at the University of South Carolina School iSchool this summer! Registration is now open to graduate students & LIS practitioners. Learn more: tinyurl.com/2je46kdw
Renewers, keep in mind that the organization's desire is to keep itself going. Move accordingly when seeking your new role! Which things are (will you be) doing? See more at tinyurl.com/ywtnykv2
Renewers, I'm excited to reconnect with you live this year - here are my first speaking engagements of 2026. Learn more at tinyurl.com/uxxf9duc, and I hope to see you all soon!
The Reset Experience is happening soon, and I'm excited to introduce our speakers! Register for this complimentary community-building event at tinyurl.com/3jzvnswc. Only a few spaces are left! Workers from all libraries and library-supporting/adjacent workplaces are welcome.
In the latest issue of College & Research Libraries News: crln.acrl.org/index.php/cr...
Fixing Work, Not Workers: Burnout as an Organizational Problem | Johnson | College & Research Libraries News
Fixing Work, Not Workers: Burnout as an Organizational Problem
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"With love, bell hooks reminds us that healing is done in community – not alone. Therefore, in addition to sharing information about rest ...we must also offer spaces for people to imagine, craft, engage, and be held accountable for protecting space(s) to and practices of rest." tinyurl.com/5epjpvaa
Reconsidering Rest: Interruptions and Invitations (Part 2) - ACRLog
Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Kaetrena Davis Kendrick, MSLS, Founder, Renewals. (Activation notice: This post shares information about harmful workplace experiences and impacts on t...
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Much love to the library workers in Minneapolis...and Chicago...and Portland...and...[your city]. Library workers, take care of each other, too!
"As library worker exposure to library values rejection, systemic harm, and compromised safety continue ... we need to revisit and to acknowledge the very real interruptions to rest practices – especially for truamatized workers and those with historically ignored identities." - tinyurl.com/2jw76hjv
Reconsidering Rest: Interruptions and Invitations (Part 1) - ACRLog
Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Kaetrena Davis Kendrick, MSLS, Founder, Renewals. (Activation notice: This post shares information about harmful workplace experiences and impacts on t...
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Passive-Aggressive Communication is one of the main causes and manifestions of dysfunctional workplaces, and figuring out responses to ambivalent but harmful comments are one of the primary areas of rumination for harmed workers. Try these responses to help support or model clearer communication.
A new issue of our open-access journal, The Political Librarian, includes ‘We Already Know (Better): Private Thoughts, C/overt Harm, And A Call to Center Beneficence in Librarianship’ by Kaetrena Davis Kendrick. buff.ly/8eRRWmH
If you bypass emotional pain, the joy you're running too fast to meet will always feel forboden.
1/ Colleagues, my newest article, "We Already Know (Better): Private Thoughts, C/overt Harm, And A Call to Center Beneficence in Librarianship" has been published in The Political Librarian. tinyurl.com/3s7s282v
We Already Know (Better): Private Thoughts, C/overt Harm, And A Call to Center Beneficence in Librarianship
As direct actions and corresponding documentation of the brisk desertion of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) values and activities continue within the United States academic landscape, troubling...
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NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month. This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory! Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
It's December 1 - today, start practicing leaving your job on time so you have the habit established by January 1, 2026. If that's not possible, start taking your lunch on time (and as soon as you can - start leaving on time). Stop giving these workplaces your free time.
Colleagues, I'm excited to share that applications are being accepted for the 2026 Minnesota Institute for Early Career Libarians! I'll be co-leading the Institute with Pamela Espinosa de los Monteros, and with support and participation of Ione Damasco! Learn more & apply here: tinyurl.com/yc6yhbha
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The Minnesota Institute for early career librarians from traditionally underrepresented groups focuses on the development of library leaders from diverse backgrounds.
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Last week I offered a keynote at the Library Marketing & Communications Conference. I asked attendees to share their hopes for libraries & library workers. Which of these resonate with you? See more here (and add your hopes below): tinyurl.com/3cydfvkz