Slingluff, Lauren2024-10-082024-10-082024-06-03https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/54945Literature on academic libraries is increasingly casting light upon toxicity within our workplaces, and its negative impact on both individual and organizational health. This presentation will provide an overview of the attributes of toxic leadership and workplace toxicity, as well as examining the many stress factors in higher education that contribute to incivility and workplace dysfunction. Organizations with a lack of transparency and trust, may result in library workers experiencing burnout and a lack of engagement. Creating and supporting healthy organizational cultures with open communication, collaboration, and mutuality is the ethical responsibility of managers. For those that have experienced workplace toxicity, it can often be a deeply traumatic experience, one that has profound impact on job satisfaction, organizational engagement, collaboration with colleagues, and most troubling, personal health. How can individuals heal from these experiences, and what lessons can we apply to inoculate current or future workplaces from toxicity? Trauma-informed care as a concept came out of social service and mental health practice in 2009. Since then, it has been working into librarianship and library practice as a way to support patrons. What has not yet been addressed broadly within the field of librarianship is trauma-informed leadership as a means of supporting library staff as they grapple with burnout, low morale, and vocational awe. Working with a trauma-informed approach, we will examine both what those in positions of formal leadership can do, as well as how all library-workers can respond and support themselves regardless of positional authority.Presentation