{"id":3171,"date":"2009-09-06T00:48:37","date_gmt":"2009-09-06T04:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/?p=3171"},"modified":"2009-09-06T00:48:37","modified_gmt":"2009-09-06T04:48:37","slug":"professionalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/06\/professionalism.html","title":{"rendered":"Professionalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/circulatingzen.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/labor-day-weekend.html\"><strong>Circulating Zen posts about dealing with a staffing issue on a holiday weekend.<\/strong><\/a> She is faced with a student worker scheduled to cover several shifts (allowing other students to travel home for the holiday weekend) who has come down with influenza.<\/p>\n<p>Her solution is one that doesn&#8217;t fit the guidelines of her workplace.\u00a0 It does, however, fit the guidelines of her work ethic : professionalism.<\/p>\n<p>Read her post, and remember the instances where you, and others, have stepped beyond your working hours, your job classification, or some other guideline to solve a problem.\u00a0 Why is this done?\u00a0 Someone sees a need, determines a solution that fulfills the need in a way that best serves the principles of libraries and their own work ethic, and follows through.<\/p>\n<p>Simple?\u00a0\u00a0 Not really.\u00a0 It is easy to say &#8220;not my job&#8221; or &#8220;I&#8217;m simply following the rules&#8221;.\u00a0 Far more challenging is determining when and how to step beyond what you are supposed to do, and do what is truly called for in the situation.\u00a0 Especially since the person potentially exposes themself to criticism by doing so.<\/p>\n<p>Circulating Zen sums it up well:\u00a0 &#8220;I shouldn&#8217;t pawn it off on anyone else.  It&#8217;s not professional.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circulating Zen posts about dealing with a staffing issue on a holiday weekend. She is faced with a student worker scheduled to cover several shifts (allowing other students to travel home for the holiday weekend) who has come down with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/06\/professionalism.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2920,2929,2943],"tags":[5339,5057,5347,5358,5056],"class_list":["post-3171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-ethics","category-libraries","tag-blogs","tag-circulating-zen","tag-ethics","tag-libraries","tag-staffing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-P9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}