slide deck from 2016 C-EBLIP Symposium in Saskatoon, SK.

1. The Elephant in the
Room: Imposter
Syndrome &
Librarian
Researchers
Jaclyn McLean (@superjax) University of Saskatchewan C-EBLIP Fall Symposium 2016

2. Jaclyn McLean @superjax
University of Saskatchewan
C-EBLIP Fall Symposium 2016
The Elephant in the
Room: Imposter
Syndrome & Librarian
Researchers

3. The Elephant in the Room:
Imposter Syndrome &
Librarian Researchers
Jaclyn McLean @superjax University of Saskatchewan C-EBLIP Fall Symposium 2016

4. Jaclyn McLean @superjax
University of Saskatchewan
C-EBLIP Fall Symposium 2016
The Elephant
in the Room:
Imposter
Syndrome &
Librarian
Researchers

5. The Elephant in the
Room: Imposter
Syndrome &
Librarian
Researchers
Jaclyn McLean @superjax University of Saskatchewan
C-EBLIP Fall Symposium 2016

11. https://www.buzzfeed.com/kristinchirico/13-charts-that-will-make-total-sense-to-people-with-
impostor?utm_term=.pmnxk3Jb7&sub=4105639_7727040

12. Leadership, risk,
and the imposter
syndrome
Faking it: Women,
Academia and
Impostor
Syndrome
Overcoming the
systems librarian
imposter
syndrome

16. 1 in 8 librarians report above average scores
on the Impostor Phenomenon (IP) scale

21. slido.com
event code: 7888

24. https://www.buzzfeed.com/kristinchirico/13-charts-that-will-make-total-sense-to-people-with-
impostor?utm_term=.pmnxk3Jb7&sub=4105639_7727040

25. Squad

27. Failure ≠
Catastrophe

28. Perspective

29. Commitment

30. Write it down

31. CC-BY 2.0 wocintech (flickr)
Fake
it!

32. “The beauty of the impostor
syndrome is you vacillate between
extreme egomania and a complete
feeling of: ‘I’m a fraud! Oh God,
they’re on to me! I’m a fraud!’ So
you just try to ride the egomania
when it comes and enjoy it, and
then slide through the idea of
fraud.”
– Tina Fey

34. @superjax
jaclyn.mclean@usask.ca