Poster presentation: Onboarding in a Hybrid Work Environment: Questions from a Library Administrator, Answers from a New Hire.
St. Louis, Scott Richard
The COVID-19 pandemic is transforming organizational cultures across the workforce, with libraries of all kinds being no exception. This poster presentation will focus on the experience of a scholarly communication and discovery services librarian beginning a new job in the United States Federal Reserve System in May 2021, immediately after completing graduate school. The poster will be organized around answering key questions that participants in INCONECSS 2022 might have in mind with regard to onboarding new colleagues successfully, especially in libraries that have experienced major changes in day-to-day working life over the past two years. These key questions will include the following, in no particular order: What has worked well with remote onboarding as a new employee? Where is the in-person component of working life unmatched by remote work? How can a new employee ensure harmony between their own expectations/preferences and those of their colleagues and supervisor? How might the lack of daily spatial proximity to colleagues impact the informal knowledge sharing that orients a new employee to a library/office culture, including the explicit and implicit aspects of that culture? In that ways might new employees compensate for this deficit? In a remote working environment, how might a new employee go about building relationships with important “secondary contacts” in a library organization? (The people you need to know, but don’t necessarily need to see or interact with every day.)
 Good. With that, I'd like to briefly review our speakers. We'll be starting off with Scott Richard St. Louis, then, and hopefully I say these names correctly, Omid Ghezvan, then we'll have Marcus Herklutz and Lars Oberländer doing together, then we'll have Deborah Gebraak followed by Julian Franken, then we'll have Terrence William O'Neill, Paola Corti followed by Tim Tolle, and closing up our session will be Arjun Sanyal. So with that, I'd like to ask our first speaker to come on up. Scott Richard St. Louis, maybe every speaker can just briefly introduce themselves, say where they're currently at physically, and then once they've shared the presentation, they can go ahead and start the three-minute talk. So Scott, the digital floor is yours. Thank you very much. Hello, everyone. It's great to be with you today to begin what I am sure will be a fascinating poster session. My name is Scott St. Louis, and I am the Scholarly Communication and Discovery Services Librarian at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. My last name is just a happy coincidence, but I do like to say it's not every day you get to apply for a job, which literally has your name on it. So hello from St. Louis, Missouri in the United States. I'll keep my poster pitch nice and short today out of respect for the other presenters. Having completed library school at the University of Michigan in May of 2021, I onboarded into my first ever hybrid work environment at the St. Louis Fed, which I define as a work environment that blends remote requirements with in-person or on-site requirements. And to make a long story short, my poster is simply comprised of questions that came to mind for my supervisor and answers based on my experience as a relatively new employee, having just celebrated my one-year anniversary with the Federal Reserve System earlier this month. These questions relate to various aspects of the hybrid onboarding experience, and I hope that my poster booth will serve as a place for discussion about the opportunities and challenges of remote work as we all continue getting accustomed to this new normal of life in libraries and in many other types of workplaces. Thank you very much. It's great to be here, and I hope to see you in the booth.
 Good. With that, I'd like to briefly review our speakers. We'll be starting off with Scott Richard  St. Louis, then, and hopefully I say these names correctly, Omid Ghezvan, then we'll have Marcus  Herklutz and Lars Oberländer doing together, then we'll have Deborah Gebraak followed by Julian  Franken, then we'll have Terrence William O'Neill, Paola Corti followed by Tim Tolle, and closing up  our session will be Arjun Sanyal. So with that, I'd like to ask our first speaker to come on up.  Scott Richard St. Louis, maybe every speaker can just briefly introduce themselves,  say where they're currently at physically, and then once they've shared the presentation,  they can go ahead and start the three-minute talk. So Scott, the digital floor is yours.  Thank you very much. Hello, everyone. It's great to be with you today to begin what I am sure will  be a fascinating poster session. My name is Scott St. Louis, and I am the Scholarly Communication  and Discovery Services Librarian at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. My last name is just  a happy coincidence, but I do like to say it's not every day you get to apply for a job, which  literally has your name on it. So hello from St. Louis, Missouri in the United States.  I'll keep my poster pitch nice and short today out of respect for the other presenters.  Having completed library school at the University of Michigan in May of 2021,  I onboarded into my first ever hybrid work environment at the St. Louis Fed, which I define  as a work environment that blends remote requirements with in-person or on-site requirements.  And to make a long story short, my poster is simply comprised of questions that came to mind for my  supervisor and answers based on my experience as a relatively new employee, having just celebrated  my one-year anniversary with the Federal Reserve System earlier this month. These questions relate  to various aspects of the hybrid onboarding experience, and I hope that my poster booth  will serve as a place for discussion about the opportunities and challenges of remote work  as we all continue getting accustomed to this new normal of life in libraries and in many other  types of workplaces. Thank you very much. It's great to be here, and I hope to see you in the booth.
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Good. With that, I'd like to briefly review our speakers. We'll be starting off with Scott Richard St. Louis, then, and hopefully I say these names correctly, Omid Ghezvan, then we'll have Marcus Herklutz and Lars Oberländer doing together, then we'll have Deborah Gebraak followed by Julian Franken, then we'll have Terrence William O'Neill, Paola Corti followed by Tim Tolle, and closing up our session will be Arjun Sanyal. So with that, I'd like to ask our first speaker to come on up. Scott Richard St. Louis, maybe every speaker can just briefly introduce themselves, say where they're currently at physically, and then once they've shared the presentation, they can go ahead and start the three-minute talk. So Scott, the digital floor is yours. Thank you very much. Hello, everyone. It's great to be with you today to begin what I am sure will be a fascinating poster session. My name is Scott St. Louis, and I am the Scholarly Communication and Discovery Services Librarian at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. My last name is just a happy coincidence, but I do like to say it's not every day you get to apply for a job, which literally has your name on it. So hello from St. Louis, Missouri in the United States. I'll keep my poster pitch nice and short today out of respect for the other presenters. Having completed library school at the University of Michigan in May of 2021, I onboarded into my first ever hybrid work environment at the St. Louis Fed, which I define as a work environment that blends remote requirements with in-person or on-site requirements. And to make a long story short, my poster is simply comprised of questions that came to mind for my supervisor and answers based on my experience as a relatively new employee, having just celebrated my one-year anniversary with the Federal Reserve System earlier this month. These questions relate to various aspects of the hybrid onboarding experience, and I hope that my poster booth will serve as a place for discussion about the opportunities and challenges of remote work as we all continue getting accustomed to this new normal of life in libraries and in many other types of workplaces. Thank you very much. It's great to be here, and I hope to see you in the booth.
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