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Achieving a Work–Life Balance

Working an evening/night shift requires balancing lifestyle choices and work demands. Because of the atypical work hours of the evening/night shift, librarians must be even more proactive about maintaining health, employing time management skills, establishing a work–life balance, and setting goals. In this column, I discuss some of the personal and professional difficulties of evening/night work and ways for librarians to function at their peak during evening/night shifts. Much of the literature on health complications related to working nights assumes a traditional all-night shift, but my emphasis concerns library shifts that may start in the afternoon but whose hours end no later than midnight.