025.431: The Dewey blog

Job Stress and Burnout

Job stress and job burnout have been discussed recently in the news:

“Workplace Coach: What You Can Do to Reduce Job Stress” Seattle Post Intelligencer

While job stress isn't new, there is no doubt it's on the rise. This workplace coach sees an alarming trend in frazzled, burned out and exhausted workers. The constant theme I hear: Everyone is increasingly challenged to do more with less. . . .

“Sense of Fairness Affects Outlook, Decisions” Washington Post

Burnout has been long associated with being overworked and underpaid, but psychologists Christina Maslach and Michael Leiter found that these were not the crucial factors. The single biggest difference between employees who suffered burnout and those who did not was the whether they thought that they were being treated unfairly or fairly. . . .
[see also abstract of original article]

“Workplace Burnout Threatens New Grads” CNN

This year's graduating seniors may face higher risk for job burnout than their parents’ generation, say business and career experts. . . .

More comprehensive information about job stress is available on the Internet, e.g., the “Job Stress” section of the American Institute of Stress site and U. S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Publication no. 99-101 Stress...At Work.

Interdisciplinary works on job stress are classed in 158.72 Job stress.  The Relative Index signals that 158.72 is the interdisciplinary number, because it is “the first class number displayed in the index entry (the unindented term)” (section 11.8 in Introduction to DDC):

Job stress   158.72 
Job stress—executive management   658.4095 
Job stress—labor economics   331.256 

In the upward hierarchy for 158.72 is 158.7 Industrial psychology, which has a scope note, class-here note, and class-elsewhere note, all of which have hierarchical force and thus indicate how subordinate numbers are to be interpreted:

Works focusing on the psychology of the individual employee in relation to work or taking a broad view that encompasses the concerns of individual employees, union leaders, management

Class here psychology of work

Class industrial psychology applied to a specific subject outside psychology with the subject, plus notation T1—019 from Table 1, e.g., psychological principles of personnel management 658.30019

Examples of works classed in 158.72 are Handbook of Work Stress and Get a Grip!: Overcoming Stress and Thriving in the Workplace. Works that focus on burnout are classed in 158.723 Job burnout, e.g., Banishing Burnout: Six Strategies for Improving your Relationship with Work and Overcoming Job Burnout: How to Renew Enthusiasm for Work.

Works on job stress in a specific occupation are classed with the occupation plus standard subdivision T1—019 Psychological principles, e.g., I Love a Cop: What Police Families Need to Know 363.2019 Psychological aspects of police services (built with 363.2 Police services plus T1—019 Psychological principles).   

392.5 Wedding and marriage customs

We had a wedding in the Dewey family on Saturday—Dewey product manager Libbie Crawford married Bruce Ford in a beautiful wedding ceremony followed immediately by a reception in the atrium of the Frederick G. Kilgour Building at OCLC headquarters in Dublin, Ohio. Giles Martin served as the official photographer and took the picture at left of the happy couple. We wish Libbie and Bruce all the best!

Down the hill in DC

The annual Greater Washington Soap Box Derby will be held this Sunday, June 22.  While some hills are higher and faster, our course is down Capitol Hill on Constitution Avenue.  A soapbox car is a motorless vehicle capable of holding a driver (usually a child) built for the purpose of racing or recreation. The derby is a race of the cars propelled by gravity.  While automobile racing is classed at 796.72 Automobile racing, soapbox racing cannot class there, since 796.72 is subordinate to 796.7 Driving motor vehicles.  Since soapbox cars are motorless, soapbox racing is classed at 796.6 Cycling and related activities, whose scope note is “Use of wheeled vehicles not driven by motor or animal power.”  In addition, notation T1—09 Historical, geographic, persons treatment plus notation T2—753 Washington, D.C., cannot be added, since soapbox racing is an including concept at 796.6.

Posted by Juli for Winton

Exercise in Late Adulthood

“Healthy seniors who are physically active and exercise for more than 60 minutes each week can lessen their chances of disability as they age, finds a new long-term study,” Science Daily reported recently.  The original article appeared in American Journal of Public Health (abstract here). 

MedLinePlus, a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, has a comprehensive unit entitled “Exercise for Seniors.”

Comprehensive works on exercise in late adulthood are classed in 613.710846 Exercise for people in late adulthood (built with 613.71 Exercise and sports activities, which has the standard-subdivisions-are-added note “Standard subdivisions are added for exercise and sports activities together, for exercise alone,” plus T1—0846 Persons in late adulthood), e.g., Exercise and Fitness for the Older Adult and You Can Do It!: Exercises for Older People.

Works on a specific kind of exercise in late adulthood are classed with the kind plus, when possible, T1—0846, e.g., Tai chi for people in late adulthood 613.71480846 (built with 613.7148 Exercises from the martial arts traditions and related traditions, which has the class-here note “Class here tai chi. . . ,” plus T1—0846 Persons in late adulthood), e.g., Tai Chi for Elders. The class-here note indicates that tai chi approximates the whole of 613.7148 and makes it possible to add T1—0846.

Stonehenge

National Geographic News reports:

Stonehenge stood as giant tombstones to the dead for centuries—perhaps marking the cemetery of a ruling prehistoric dynasty—new radiocarbon dating suggests.

The site appears to have been intended as a cemetery from the very start, around 5,000 years ago—centuries before the giant sandstone blocks were erected—the new study says.

BBC also reports on that research, but continues:

Two other Stonehenge experts, Professor Tim Darvill, from the University of Bournemouth, and Professor Geoff Wainwright, from the Society of Antiquaries, have a different theory about the monument.

They are convinced that the dominating feature on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire was akin to a “Neolithic Lourdes” – a place where people went on a pilgrimage to get cured.

According to the English Heritage web site, “There has always been intense debate over quite what purpose Stonehenge served. Certainly, it was the focal point in a landscape filled with prehistoric ceremonial structures, now a World Heritage Site.”

Stonehenge is located on Salisbury Plain near Amesbury in Salisbury District.  Interdisciplinary works on history of Stonehenge are classed in 936.2319 Ancient history of Salisbury District (built with 9 plus T2—362 Ancient England, following instructions at 930–990 History of ancient world; of specific continents, countries, localities; of extraterrestrial worlds, plus 319 from T2—42319 Salisbury District, following instructions at T2—362), e.g., Stonehenge Complete and Stonehenge: A New History of the World's Greatest Stone Circle.