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The Conference on Academic Library Management (CALM) focuses on practical management skills and concrete practices. Returning in 2026! #LibCALM www.conferenceonacademiclibrarymanagement.com
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Call for CALM 2026 proposals now live! forms.gle/RkQUcyhL3NbH...

We look forward to seeing your proposals for virtual presentations that inform and inspire the practice and application of management and leadership in academic libraries!

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CALM 2026 Call for Proposals
The Conference on Academic Library Management (CALM) will take place May 12-14 2026. The CALM Program Planning Committee invites proposals for virtual presentations that inform and inspire the practic...
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October 17, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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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
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August 8, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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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
CALM 2026 -- Coming Soon!
Greetings, CALM Community, It has been a little while, but we are excited to share with you that CALM will return in 2026! Please save the dates: May 12-14, 2026. We can't wait to come back together i...
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June 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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🐾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...
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August 9, 2024 at 6:16 PM
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🎉 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! 📧✨
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July 29, 2024 at 11:11 PM
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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 📸
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July 18, 2024 at 7:29 PM
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“Beyond a Land Acknowledgment” from the @calmconference.bsky.social 2023 Logistics Committee has been published!
Beyond a Land Acknowledgement: : Taking a First Step Towards Reparative Action | Journal of Radical Librarianship
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July 17, 2024 at 12:36 PM
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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...
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July 11, 2024 at 6:16 PM
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📢 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

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The CALM Chronicle: 2024 CALM Conference Key Takeaways: 1. All work has dignity, all work has value. 2. Relationship building is important and takes time. 3. Clear, compassionate communication is key. 4. Challenges to be good managers are tied to societal and institutional systems and structures that are problematic. 5. Implementing person-centered practices can be small scale changes that stack up over time. 6. As much as we care for others, we also need to care for ourselves Forum Participants Confirmed: We are thrilled to announce that the participants for our upcoming forum have been confirmed! 43 library workers with a broad variety of backgrounds and experiences from the United States and Canada will be joining the Forum from July 31 to August 2, 2024, on the UC San Diego campus. Have questions? Feel free to send them to identifyinggaps@gmail.com. Next CALM Conference in 2026! Mark your calendars! The next Conference on Academic Library Management will be held in 2026.
June 21, 2024 at 9:11 PM
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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
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June 3, 2024 at 8:14 PM
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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...
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May 21, 2024 at 3:20 PM
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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
May 16, 2024 at 9:02 PM
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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
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May 16, 2024 at 9:04 PM
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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
Four hands gently resting over each other in black and white. The title reads: Our Job to Care: Bold Ideas & Concrete Solutions for Caregivers at Work with Katherine Goldstein.
May 16, 2024 at 7:18 PM
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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
Nine outlines of BIPOC women arranged in a square of three rows and three columns. The title reads: BIPOC-Only Session | Stuck in the Middle: Women of Color Middle Managers and Their Experiences in Academic Libraries With Treshani Perera, Sherise Kimura. and Kristyn Seo Taff. Four stone-like shapes in muted peach, salmon, tan, and green, with an off-white title square in front of them. The title reads: Emergent Strategy and Radical Library Management & Engagement With Roxane Pickens. Colorful drawn flowers and leaves in orange, green, pink, and violet, framing each of the corners. The title reads: Human-Centered Approaches to Supervisors and Managers Supporting Accommodations in Libraries With Abigail L. Phillips and Dustin Fife. Four peach flowers with a few tiny pink flowers and peach and blue dots emerging from on top of them, against a deep navy background. The title reads: Support in All the Right Places: An Empathic Approach to Tenure With Sandy Hervieux and Katherine Hanz.
May 16, 2024 at 6:02 PM
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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
A string being threaded through a sewing needle against a dark plum background. The title reads: Threading the Needle: Communicating Library Budget Information Up and Down the Chain of Command With Jonathan Shank. Soft pink flowers gently falling against a faded background. The title reads: Reimagining the Search Experience of Internal Candidates with Ethics of Care With Merinda McLure, Wendy Holliday, and Kaetrena Davis Kendrick. A bright watercolor painting with swaths of yellow, fuchsia, and teal, with a white circle in the center. The title reads: Everything Everywhere All At Once: How to Tackle Interim Leadership Responsibilities for Beginners With Heather Cyre. A lime-yellow circle framed with two shades of light blue, emerging from the bottom like a sunset against a medium blue background. The title reads: From Individual to Collective: Applying Person-Centered Management in Unionized Libraries With Joanna Messer Kimmitt.
May 16, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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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! 🐶😺🐐
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May 16, 2024 at 1:38 PM
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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!
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May 15, 2024 at 9:10 PM
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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
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May 15, 2024 at 6:55 PM
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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
A hunter green background with three white lines swirling within it. The title reads: Change is Hard when the System Rewards the Privileged: Inclusive Interviewing as a Feminist Practice With Amanda Albert, Rebecca Hyde, Jamie Emery, and Sarah Fancher. Tall trees within a forest, with faint rays of sunlight peeking through. The title reads: Retention Through Empathy: An Invitation to Compassionate Progressive Discipline With Jessica Garner and Kate Coates. The top of a mountain range looking out upon a cloudy, sunset sky. The title reads: Meaningful Work & Librarian Agency: Exploring Job Control Among Academic Instruction Librarians With Matthew Weirick Johnson. An expanse of orangey clouds against a sunlit, light purple sky. The title reads: Talking Honestly and Compassionately About Retirement With Joanna Messer Kimmitt.
May 15, 2024 at 6:33 PM
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"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.

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May 15, 2024 at 6:00 PM
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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.
IMLS, spelled out in giant letters fading from blue to red to orange. The title reads: Identifying Gaps and Opportunities in Professional Development Support for Managers Grant Update From the CALM Steering Committee Maoria Kirker, Shawnta Smith-Cruz, Diann Smothers, Heather James, Veronica Arellano Douglas, Dani Brecher Cook, and Kat Bell. Two trees standing next to a lake, with the sun's rays shining through one of the tree's branches. The title reads: The Role of Supervisors in Maintaining Sustainable Workloads for Academic Instruction Librarians With Shanti Freundlich. A single daisy against a faded background. The title reads: The Reflexive Library Leader: Building Better Academic Library Leaders Through Relational Practices With Julia Davis.
May 15, 2024 at 5:11 PM
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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
Hiring Librarians
An inside look at library hiring
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May 15, 2024 at 4:35 PM
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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
A view of a desk from above, showing part of a laptop keyboard, a smartphone, and a glass of coffee. The title reads: Leading From Where You Are: Taking Ownership in Improving Department Culture With Cara Calabrese and Masha Stepanova. An arrow that splits into three directions on a dark pavement, with a person's feet standing at the intersection. The title reads: Getting the Right People on the Bus With Tatiana Usova. A warm, gradient orange circle slowly fading into the background. The title reads: Beyond a Land Acknowledgement Listening Session Facilitated by the CALM Logistics Committee.
May 15, 2024 at 3:25 PM
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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
Library conferences on BlueSky
A list of library and information science conferences, with links to their hashtags on the social media platform BlueSky.
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May 15, 2024 at 9:21 AM