Recipes for Mindfulness in Your Library: Supporting Resilience and Community Engagement

摘要

Recipes for Mindfulness in Your Library:Supporting Resilience and CommunityEngagement offers insightfulinformation not only for librarians,but also for anyone who is lookingto provide mindfulness programmingto groups or organizationsand for those who want to findways to improve themselvesthrough mindfulness techniques. Inthe introduction, the editors—Madeline Charney, Jenny Colvin,and Richard Moniz—state thatmindfulness should already be apersonal practice for librarians aswell as administrators who wish toimplement these types of programs.The editors feel that thecommitment to the personal practiceof mindfulness from librariansand administrators brings authenticityto programs, which will help“this burgeoning movement takeroot with credibility and lastingvalue” (p xi).