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Library Wellness: Incorporating Physical Activity & Mindfulness in the Workplace

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Library Wellness

Physical Activity & Mindfulness in the Workplace

Special Thanks to Shannon Simpson, JHU

For allowing me to adapt her slides

physical activity

"Learning is not just a cognitive function. Thinking, feeling and physicality all come together to develop new knowledge and skills."
Conyers & Wilson, Smart Moves

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Positive correlation between physical activity and academic achievement
- CSBA Fact Sheet

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Activity breaks help students' on-task behavior
-CSBA Fact Sheet

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Active transportation enhances academic performance
-CSBA Fact Sheet

Sedentary behaviors and subsequent health outcomes in adults
Thorp, Owen, etc., American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2011

Main points
Sitting for too long, even when you exercise, causes death

Recos:
new office chairs that encourage movement, don't stay at desk during breaks or lunch. Walk somewhere, anywhere, during break, or for a meeting. Walk with a colleague for coffee. Drink lots of water that will help keep you running to the bathroom. Do more teaching. Break the workplace culture of INFREQUENT breaks!
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Lessons in higher education: Five pedagogical practices that promote active learning for faculty and students
Cook-Sather, Journal of Faculty Development, 2011

Main points:
How to promote active learning in our students. (Not physical activity, but brain activity.)
1. Reflect on how they learn -what they want to do and how
2. Developing methodoligical awareness
3. Modeling and explaining
4. Transparency of methods - clear outcomes
5. Ask students to engage in reflection and dialogue

Recos:
1. Do more self-reflection and write it down, students and faculty
2. Share how we/they learn
3.
4. share at beginining
5. At the end of semester (throughout the class?) Can we ask students how they would like to learn?
Modeling seemed to ring true for IL instruction and Framework
On ref desk, spend time with the reference interview and honest and transparent regarding the process

Moving beyond seating-centered learning environments
DeClercq, Cranz, Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2014

Main points:
Post-occupancy study. Observed how people used space
Limiter to how people move is based on not being able to abandon "their stuff"
students take the first thing they see, closest to natural light

Recos:
Lockers, moveable lockers? Foot rests and reclining chairs. Variety of stuff and different furniture options. What students say, is not always what they want, comfy chairs are not always utilized, even though they ask. small movements and changes in posture help students health
rooms for small breaks to do physical activity
Physical space may be just as important, or more than the collection itself
How do we present our space? How do we get them to the 7th floor and not stay on the 1st floo
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