Library Staff Development Handbook - How to Maximize Your Librarys Most Important Resource

Using examples, tips, suggestions for resources, samples, and anecdotes from a wide variety of library practitioners and settings, The Library Staff Development Handbook shows how to create an environment that nurtures individuals while encouraging staff opportunities in order to generate optimal institutional performance.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

Using examples, tips, suggestions for resources, samples, and anecdotes from a wide variety of library practitioners and settings, The Library Staff Development Handbook shows how to create an environment that nurtures individuals while encouraging staff opportunities in order to generate optimal institutional performance.

Product details

• Authors: Flaherty, Mary Grace Flaherty
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9781442270350
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-7035-0
• No. of pages: 154
• Series: Medical Library Association Books Series; Medical Library Association Bo; Medical Library Association Books Series; Medical Library Association Bo
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system; Personnel & human resources management, Personnel and human resources management, Library, archive and information management, Library, Archive & Information Management