RUSA/LAMA: Having it All? Work and Family

[Amy Tracy Wells]

Program Title: RUSA/LAMA: Having it All? Work and Family

Date: Saturday, June 16th, 2001

Location: Moscone, Rooms 250-262

Program Description: Balancing the competing demands of work and family is
for many the most difficult challenge of our professional career. Whether
the demands are related to having a child(ren), or caring for a spouse or
partner, or an aging parent, our family/work decisions have long-term
significance. The issues involve income, retirement, and professional
security; part-time and non-standard work arrangements vs. full-time; family
leave; acceptance at home and at work; and self-identity. "Having it All?"
will present in a speaker format the personal, professional, and on-going
decisions and reflections of four librarians along with some critical
background and context on family/work issues. Speakers will give a
chronology of their family and career, discuss their decisions and how they
try to achieve a balance, as well as how their personal experiences have
informed their own decisions as managers.

Speakers: Karen Diaz, User Education Librarian for Internet Instruction,
Ohio State University; Karen Muller, Knowledge Manager, ALA; Peggy Seiden,
College Librarian, Swarthmore College; and Tom Wilding, Director of
Libraries, University of Texas at Arlington.

Please join us!

Amy Tracy Wells, Co-Chair
Pam Sieving, Co-Chair

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Amy Tracy Wells
100 Library
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48823
wellsat at msu.edu
(V) 517.432.9857 
(F) 517.432.8050