TY - JOUR AU - Piyati, Ajit PY - 2018/08/15 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Information Overload, Stress, and Burnout: The Need for Contemplative Approaches in LIS JF - Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS / Actes du congrès annuel de l'ACSI JA - CAIS/ACSI VL - 0 IS - 0 SE - Articles DO - 10.29173/cais1056 UR - https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/ojs.cais-acsi.ca/index.php/cais-asci/article/view/1056 SP - AB - <div style="left: 60.0542px; top: 641.086px; font-size: 19.8824px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.957386);">The information age, despite its undeniable </div><div style="left: 60.0542px; top: 663.752px; font-size: 19.8824px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.963111);">opportunities and benefits, is also rife with stress, </div><div style="left: 60.0542px; top: 686.418px; font-size: 19.8824px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.962231);">information overload, and </div><div style="left: 280.906px; top: 686.418px; font-size: 19.8824px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.943335);">anxiety. Given this </div><div style="left: 60.0542px; top: 708.686px; font-size: 19.8824px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.952246);">context, LIS unfortunately remains  largely silent </div><div style="left: 60.0542px; top: 731.352px; font-size: 19.8824px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.94682);">about these affective concerns. One  way to </div><div style="left: 60.0542px; top: 754.018px; font-size: 19.8824px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.946695);">address these concerns is for LIS to  embrace </div><div style="left: 60.0542px; top: 776.286px; font-size: 19.8824px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.956648);">contemplative approaches as a mode of inquiry. </div><div style="left: 458.876px; top: 798.952px; font-size: 19.8824px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.989795);">As such, the paper offers a preliminary sketch of </div><div style="left: 60.0542px; top: 889.218px; font-size: 19.8824px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.95812);">a “contemplative LIS” to allow LIS scholars and professionals to more effectively address issues such as overload and burnout. This exploration is based on the following four themes: 1) Attention; </div><div style="left: 60.0542px; top: 911.486px; font-size: 19.8824px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.952045);">2) Relationships; 3) Reflection; and 4) Action.</div> ER -