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Abstract
Library, archives, and information work asks a lot of our executive functions (EFs): we need access to our working memory, a high degree of flexibility, goal-directed persistence, and many other cognitive functions to get through a typical day in a library. Everyone has functions that are stronger and weaker, and everyone’s EFs are negatively affected by stress, hunger, illness, and the ups and downs of life. However, many people struggle with executive DYSfunction, which is strongly correlated with neurological conditions like autism and ADHD, mental illness like bipolar disorder and OCD, or physical conditions like traumatic brain injuries. Managing executive dysfunction can be a daily challenge, but that work is often carried out in the shadows, neither seen nor discussed. This talk will discuss it! We’ll look at how executive dysfunctions are most effectively managed, and why this work deserves to be recognized as part of a larger conversation on the invisible labor of living with disability.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will understand what executive functions and dysfunctions look like.
- Participants will understand the concept of invisible labor and how it intersects with disability, particularly invisible disabilities.
- Participants will understand how executive dysfunction can create invisible labor, and what that labor looks like.
- Participants will connect all of this understanding to the setting of library work, and how everyone can lessen the load of invisible labor on disabled workers.
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Orbis Cascade Alliance
Publication Date
5-1-2025
Keywords
executive dysfunction, neuroinclusion, disability, invisible labor
Disciplines
Library and Information Science
Recommended Citation
Gustavsen, Nicole, "Managing Executive Dysfunction in the Library: An Examination of Invisible Labor" (2025). Foley Library Scholarship. 46.
https://repository.gonzaga.edu/foleyschol/46
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This video is a recording of a presentation sponsored by Orbis-Cascade Alliance's Accessibility Standing Group as a part of their Spring 2025 Neuroinclusion in the Workplace speaker series.
For more information on the series, see the series homepage on the Orbis Cascade Alliance website.