Mary Grace Flaherty

The Library Staff Development Handbook (eBook, ePUB)

How to Maximize Your Library's Most Important Resource

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442270374
• Artikelnr.: 48568208

Autorenporträt

Mary Grace Flaherty is professor emerita at the School of Information and Library Science at UNC-Chapel Hill. She has over 40 years of professional library experience in a variety of positions. She holds a PhD from Syracuse University and master's degrees from Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Maryland. She served as an IMLS Fellow, and as a Fulbright Scholar. Dr. Flaherty's other books include: Great Library Events: From Planning to Promoting to Evaluation; Disaster Planning Handbook for Libraries; and Promoting Individual and Community Health at the Library.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Essential Background
Chapter 2 Staffing and Organizational Planning
Chapter 3 Attracting the Best and Brightest
Chapter 4 Staff Engagement: Creating Opportunities
Chapter 5 Staff Development
Chapter 6 Staff Evaluation
Chapter 7 Additional Funding Sources for Staffing Activities
Chapter 8 Wrapping Up