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Supporting digital wellness and wellbeing

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dc.contributor.authorFeerrar, Juliaen
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity Librariesen
dc.contributor.editorLannon, A.en
dc.contributor.editorHolder, S.en
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-09T22:02:17Zen
dc.date.available2020-11-09T22:02:17Zen
dc.date.issued2020en
dc.date.updated2020-11-09T22:02:15Zen
dc.description.abstractElements of digital life, such as information overload, distraction, privacy concerns, and interpersonal interactions, can significantly affect an individual’s well-being. Cultivating digital wellness involves the ability to navigate these aspects of digital life and to make mindful decisions related to time spent, account settings, sharing, and more. Education in support of digital wellness and well-being is an important and growing feature of wellness-related initiatives on college and university campuses. Academic libraries can be key partners in these kinds of programs. This chapter shares approaches for librarians looking to support digital well-being. Following a review of the literature on digital wellness and college students, the author details a case study of two pilot approaches to digital wellness support at the University Libraries at Virginia Tech: contributing to a large campus-wide event and developing cocurricular workshops. Connecting relevant outreach and instructional programs to digital well-being, and framing them in wellness terms, offered librarians new opportunities to build partnerships across campus and to connect with students.en
dc.description.versionAccepted versionen
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/100812en
dc.publisherACRL Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofStudent Wellness and Academic Libraries: Case Studies and Activities for Promoting Health and Successen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/en
dc.titleSupporting digital wellness and wellbeingen
dc.typeBook chapteren
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dcterms.dateAccepted2018-09-12en
pubs.organisational-group/Virginia Tech/Libraryen
pubs.organisational-group/Virginia Tech/Library/Research, Learning, and Informatics/Teaching & Learning Engagementen
pubs.organisational-group/Virginia Tech/Library/Research, Learning, and Informatics/Teaching & Learning Engagement/Digital Literacy Initiativesen
pubs.organisational-group/Virginia Techen
pubs.organisational-group/Virginia Tech/Library/Research, Learning, and Informaticsen
pubs.place-of-publicationChicagoen

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