Self Care and Mutual Aid

See also our Health and Pandemics and Labor, Staffing, Training pages

• Activist Trauma Support

• Archive of Healing

• Building Lifelong Opportunities for Strength, Self-Care, Outlook, Morale, and Mindfulness Summit 2021 (BLOSSOM)

• ColorLines Self-Care Resources

• Five Digital Self-Care Practices Black People Can Use while Coping with Trauma

• Health and Wellbeing Resources (Archives and Records Association, UK and Ireland): for archives workers handling traumatic archival imagery or content

• Helping Children Deal with Shootings and Other Bad News (DC Public Library)

• Helping Kids Cope With Media Coverage of War and Traumatic Events

• How Women of Color are Practicing Self Care in A Trump World

• Kim Kelly. "We Only Have Ourselves: The How-Tos and DOs and DON'Ts of Mutual Aid" (Literary Hub, January 21, 2025) 

• Liberation Line

• LIS Mental Health

• Mental Health Resources for Libraries (OCLC WebJunction)

• Mutual Aid at Work

• Oh Crap What Now? Survival Guide A crowdsourced collection of health, legal and safety plans and resources + social, digital and economic security related resources (active 2016-2017)

• Anne Helen Petersen. "The Librarians Are Not Okay." May 1, 2022.

• Renewals: Resources and research on library workers' morale

• Hanna Roseen. "Work/Life Balance, Mental Health, and Rest for LIS Professionals and Students." Hack Library School, March 24, 2020.

• Katrina Spencer. "Comprehensive Guide to Resisting Overcommitment." Up-Root, January 17, 2022.

• Self Care for People of Color after Trauma

• Urban Library Trauma Study

• Wellness for Library Workers (ALA-APA)