Weekly News Digest

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Lucidea Looks at How the Move to Hybrid and Remote Affects Knowledge Work

Lauren Hays writes the following in “The Changing Location of Work: Hybrid Library Services” for Lucidea’s Think Clearly blog: 

For many knowledge workers, our roles have moved from fully in-office to fully remote, and now to a patchwork of remote, hybrid, and back-in-office arrangements. That shift means librarians have to rethink how we design services, training, and access. …

Remote work changed how I think about work and how I do it. The shift to remote was abrupt, but adjusting to it wasn’t actually that hard for me. That may not be true for everyone, but I’d guess most of us adjusted and found real benefits in working remotely.

For more information, read the blog post.

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