Psychological Safety in Libraries: It’s a Team Sport

Abstract

Academic Library Workers in Conversation is a C&RL News series focused on elevating the everyday conversations of library professionals. The wisdom of the watercooler has long been heralded, but this series hopes to go further by minimizing barriers to traditional publishing with an accessible format. Each of the topics in the series were proposed by the authors and they were given space to explore. This issue’s conversation is about psychological safety in academic libraries. The discussion affirms that psychological safety and culture change are a group effort, even if some team members have a disproportionate influence.—Dustin Fife, series editor