We are happy to share that our Call for Volunteers for CALM 2026 is now open! From now until August 22 at noon Eastern time, you can volunteer for 5 different committees or to be a proposal reviewer. Visit www.conferenceonacademiclibrarymanagement.com/volunteer for more information! #LibCALM

CALM 2026 will be held May 12-14, 2026. We can't wait to learn alongside you, and you can learn more about upcoming key dates for the conference in our latest update: wix.to/P0fxDX9

🐾August 26th is World Dog Day, and we want to celebrate your fur-tastic friends! Show off your pup’s most pawsome moments by sharing their photos and stories with us. 📸#WorldDogDay #PawsAndPlay 🐶: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🎉 Get ready for the CALM Forum on August 1st-2nd at the University of California, San Diego! 🌟 Attendees, be sure to check your email for FAQs and schedule details if you haven't already. Check-in starts at 8:30 AM—don’t miss it! 📧✨

Do you have a furry (or scaly!) friend you'd love to show off? Share your pet's adorable moments with us and join our #PetsOfCalm community! Submit your pet's photo and details through this Google form. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Get your cameras ready and let your pets shine 📸

“Beyond a Land Acknowledgment” from the @calmconference.bsky.social 2023 Logistics Committee has been published!

In case you missed it, we announced the launch of our brand new CALM Chronicle Archive page on the CALM website! Now you can easily access all of our past newsletters in one convenient place. www.conferenceonacademiclibrarymanagement.com/calm-chronic...

📢 The June CALM Chronicle is out! 🌟 If you missed our Newsletter this month, no worries! Keep up to date with all things CALM by subscribing to our newsletter! Check out our June edition and stay connected: lib.ucsd.edu/3RI4yvB #AcademicLibraries #LibraryManagement

Help shape the future of professional development for managers in academic libraries by completing this survey! Your input could lead to positive changes in our field! Plus you could win a $10 gift card! bit.ly/identifyingg... #LibraryLeaders #LibraryManagement #Librarian

Didn't get a chance to attend CALM 2024, or trying to remember that great idea you heard from the conference? We've started uploading the recorded sessions to our YouTube channel, so check them out! Happy viewing! #LibCALM www.youtube.com/@calmconfere...

Once again CALM was such a great conference with inspiring keynotes! I have a lot of notes to review, ideas to process, and resources to read (or at least leave in a tab to mean to read for six months)! #LibCALM @calmconference.bsky.social

And that's a wrap for CALM 2024! Thanks so much to everyone for attending, for all of your engagement! We appreciate the time you took to join us this week. Stay tuned as we continue our work behind the scenes, including sharing recordings and other resources later! #LibCALM

We're wrapping CALM 2024 at 3:30 ET with our closing session and keynote! We're pleased to welcome our Katherine Goldstein of The Doubleshift (www.thedoubleshift.com/about) for her talk "Our Job to Care: Bold Ideas and Concrete Solutions for Caregivers at Work." #LibCALM

Our next set of concurrent sessions start at 2:15pm ET! On the docket are a BIPOC-only session on women of color managers, emergent strategy and radical library management, human-centered approaches to supporting accommodations, and empathetic approaches to tenure. #LibCALM

Time for day 3! Our first set of sessions today at 1:00pm ET will be covering openly communicating library budgets, reimagining the search experience of internal candidates, navigating interim leadership roles, and person-centered management in unionized libraries. #LibCALM

Hot dog! We've been receiving pictures of SO MANY #LibCALM fur babies already! Post and tag your any pets who've been joining us this week with #PetsOfCALM and we'll gather as many as we can to feature them in our closing session! 🐶😺🐐

And that's a wrap for #LibCALM day 2! We look forward to seeing everyone tomorrow at 1:00pm ET for our next set of sessions! Hope everyone has a great evening!

We're halfway through CALM and folks have been sharing a wealth of resources already! Join our CALM Resources Zotero to add and find more to learn! (Once you log in and join the group, go to the CALM 2024 folder for this year's resources.) www.zotero.org/groups/50781... #LibCALM

We have four sessions on the docket at 2:30pm ET! They'll address embedding feminist practice into interviewing, retention through compassionate progressive discipline, exploring job control among instruction librarians, and supporting colleagues approaching retirement. #LibCALM

"Do less when positions are unfilled." We cannot do more with less. We can't, and we need to stop saying that we can or that we will. If we need more people, we need more people. #LibCALM

Hope you enjoyed the first sessions of Day 2! Up next at 1:15 pm ET we have presentations on an update on #LibCALM's IMLS grant, sustainable workloads for instruction librarians, and building leaders through relational practices.

I love finding out about new resources (to me anyway) when I attend CALM. Someone recommended this blog in the chat of the session I am about hiring techniques: hiringlibrarians.com #LibCALM

Day 2! Up first at 12:00 pm ET are session we have sessions on improving department culture, strategies to hire the right people for the job, and our session on beyond a land acknowledgement. See you online! #LibCALM

Lovely to see lots of posts on BlueSky yesterday from #LibCALM (and there will be more later today I’m sure) and posts from #redux2024 coming through now. Keep letting me know of library and information relevant conferences and events with hashtags that you’ll be using, so I can add them to the list

It was a pleasure presenting at #LibCALM with @elizabethdill.bsky.social Our slides are available at qrco.de/CALMTRL with SIX pages of great comments and suggestions from @calmconference.bsky.social attendees. If you didn't get a chance to share and want your comments added please DM me!

And that's a wrap for Day 1! CALM will return tomorrow (May 15) with our first set of sessions starting at 12:00pm ET! We'll see you then! #LibCALM

Eliminate silos and encourage cross collaboration across different units/teams - relationships (social support) will boost resilience in stressful situations. - E. Davis #LibCALM

Up next at 4:00pm ET are concurrent sessions on using priority matrices to build transparency, project-based approaches for increasing engagement in antiracism and DEI, universal design and library management, and balancing organizational needs with manager well-being. #LibCALM

Make sure that you're flexible as a manager and having workflows that fit people's different needs -- it's not great to have one person responsible for a workflow. That person might not feel comfortable about taking a break if they're the only person doing the work. #LibCALM

Recognize that individuals have different capacities for (different types) of work. There are ebbs and flows in librarianship -- we shouldn't be working from the assumption that everyone has equal capacity for work. We should aim for equitable work conditions. A. Riordan #LibCALM

We're getting ready for our first group of concurrent #LibCALM sessions! Coming up at 2:45pm ET are sessions on creating a neuro-inclusive workplace, managing legacy toxicity, managing your team's workload, and emotional intelligence in the workplace.

Thinking about how you would want to be treated is key to fostering transparency with those you manage. Center your core values, and question when your behaviors are not in alignment with those. - E. Norlin #LibCALM

In my MLIS management course, I read so much work on leadership and management principles, but none of it was from a CMS, or even from a library, lens. It was all based on business principles and business guidance. That's not the way to run a library. #LibCALM

#LibCALM I do appreciate the reminder to act as a manager in conjunction with your ethics. Question if your acts are a reflection of your actual values.

Everyone in your library has dignity and value. (Danya Leebaw) #LibCALM

#LibCALM I know that I am speaking to the choir but this just reminds me how much supervision/management is *work* and how much that work is not reflected in our priorities when being trained/evaluated/work breakdown.

One thing that would make a big difference to contract librarians is managers providing ongoing robust interview tips that will benefit job searches for full-time, permanent work. -R. Steinberg #LibCALM

D. Leebaw was struck by how laudatory academic library managers were of corporate management practices. Especially since library missions are so different from corporate missions. #LibCALM

CMS works some of the library values into decision-making. R. Steinberg also noted that their anti-capitalist organizing background informed some of their perceptions around alternative ways of management (outside of business management model that we so often rely on). #LibCALM

Crit Mgmt Studies helps us understand the root causes of why we keep replicating toxic, dysfunctional behaviors in leadership/management. E. Norlin observed that organizations excelling in relational aspects were not following "traditional" management styles (which are often punitive). #LibCalm

We're excited to kick off #LibCALM 2024 with our opening keynote panel, "Can Managers Even Take a Critical Stance": A Conversation on the Value of CMS in Library Management with Danya Leebaw, Elaina Norlin, and Reece Steinberg, with Silvia Vong moderating. Join us at 1:00pm ET!

It's finally here: happy 1st day of CALM! We're so excited to engage with attendees in the coming days! Conference registrants can access links to all sessions through Sched at calm2024.sched.com. We kick off today at 1:00pm ET with our opener and first keynote! #LibCALM

We’re less than one week until #LibCALM! Who’s ready?! (And also, get your #PetsOfCALM ready! We’d love to see them too. 🐶🐱🦜🦎🐟) www.instagram.com/reel/C6t_SqW...

We're exactly two weeks away from #LibCALM! Eager to get a feel for what's in store? Don't forget you can queue up some previous conference recordings on our YouTube channel! www.youtube.com/@calmconfere...

Registration for CALM 2024 is now FULL! If you weren't able to get a spot, you can still sign up for the waitlist, and we'll release any open spots if they become available. 🤞 #LibCALM

Registration for CALM 2024 is now open! Visit calm2024.sched.com to grab one of our 1,500 spots! Get 'em while they're hot! #LibCALM

It's almost time! Registration for CALM 2024 opens TODAY (April 17) at 3:00pm EDT. Thanks to our institutional sponsors, registration is free! Spots are limited to 1,500 registrants, so get ready to get in while you can! #LibCALM

Mark your calendars! Registration for CALM 2024 will open on April 17 at 3:00pm EDT! 🗓️ Curious what's in store? The schedule is also now live at calm2024.sched.com! We'll update it as we do any final polishes over the next week, so keep watching this space! ✅ #LibCALM

Interested in exploring the professional development needs of academic library managers? Our "Identifying Gaps and Opportunities in Professional Development Support for Managers" grant team is hosting an in-person forum 7/31-8/2! Applications are due 4/26. forms.gle/sFbeDgXBCYhc...

We're finalizing the schedule for CALM 2024 and can't wait to share it with you all! Stay tuned: the schedule (and registration) will be opening up in the coming weeks! #LibCALM