The Library Staff Development Handbook: How to Maximize Your Library’s Most Important Resource

Mary Grace Flaherty

doi:10.5771/9781442270374

Summary

The Library Staff Development Handbook: How to Maximize Your Library’s Most Important Resource provides practical tips, suggestions for resources, and concrete examples for addressing the multiple and varied aspects of staff development. From crafting a job description to recruitment, hiring and retention, and from progressive discipline and succession planning to continuing education, performance appraisals, and the importance of workplace fun, this handbook can serve as a companion for managers, supervisors and library staff as they negotiate the challenging range of staffing issues and the opportunities they provide in the library setting.

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Copyright Year: 2017
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4422-7035-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4422-7037-4
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 140
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. List of Figures and Tables No access
3. Preface No access
4. Acknowledgments No access
Ch01. Essential Background No access Pages 1 - 8
Ch02. Staffing and Organizational Planning No access Pages 9 - 28
Ch03. Attracting the Best and Brightest No access Pages 29 - 44
Ch04. Staff Engagement: Creating Opportunities No access Pages 45 - 72
Ch05. Staff Development No access Pages 73 - 92
Ch06. Staff Evaluation No access Pages 93 - 114
Ch07. Additional Funding Sources for Staffing Activities No access Pages 115 - 124
Ch08. Going Forward No access Pages 125 - 136
Index No access Pages 137 - 138
About the Author No access Pages 139 - 140