Open AccessEnding the Silence: Utilizing Personal Experiences to Enhance a Library Mental Health Initiative
Author(s) -
Sabrina Thomas,
Kacy Lovelace
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of intellectual freedom and privacy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2474-7459
DOI - 10.5860/jifp.v4i2.7079
Subject(s) - presentation (obstetrics) , conversation , silence , mental health , panel discussion , library science , psychology , medical education , management , sociology , medicine , art , psychiatry , computer science , communication , advertising , economics , business , radiology , aesthetics
This article summarizes a panel presentation given at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Washington D.C. (June 22, 2019). The panel consisted of Sabrina Thomas, research and instruction librarian at Marshall University; Leah Tolliver, director of wellness programs and the Women’s and Gender Center at Marshall University; C. Michelle Alford, senior library IT consultant at Marshall University; and Kacy Lovelace, research and student success librarian at Marshall University. Tenikka Phillips, EAP coordinator at Cabell Huntington Hospital, worked extensively on the project but was unable to take part in the panel presentation. The following is a conversation between Sabrina Thomas and Kacy Lovelace discussing how their own personal experiences with mental health challenges and trauma served to enhance the mental health initiative in their academic library.