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The Challenges to Library Learning: Solutions for Librarians offers practical strategies for librarians dealing with challenges including depleted training budgets, overworked staff, and rapidly-changing technology, that hinder the ability-and willingness-of employees to continue job education in library sciences.
Table des matières
Introduction Chapter 1. The Rules of Engagement Chapter 2. E-Learning for Library Staff Chapter 3. Developing a Personal Learning Plan Chapter 4. The Substitute Librarian-Providing a Mechanism for the Library Learner to Lear Chapter 5. Marketing Your Library Learning Program to Staff Chapter 6. The Community Learning Program for Library Staff-The SEFLIN Case Study Chapter 7. Teaching and Measuring Information Literacy Training Appendix. PowerPoint Presentation on Design and Implementation of a Training Program for Library Staff Notes Index
A propos de l'auteur
Bruce E. Massis, MLS, MA, is Director of the Educational Resources Center at Columbus State Community College in Columbus, Ohio. He has served as a library administrator in multitype library consortia (SEFLIN, SCLS), public (Brooklyn and Hoboken Public Libraries), special (JGB Cassette Library International), and academic libraries (Adelphi University and CSCC) for more than three decades. Mr. Massis has worked in an official capacity within the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) and spent more than 20 years cooperatively developing programs, projects, and policies with international library colleagues. Active in numerous library associations and widely published, his books include
Interlibrary Loan of Alternative Format Materials;
The Practical Library Manager;
The Practical Library Trainer; Serving Print Disabled Library Patrons;
Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped: An International Approach; and
Models of Cooperation in the US, Latin America, and Caribbean Libraries.
Résumé
The Challenges to Library Learning: Solutions for Librarians offers practical strategies for librarians dealing with challenges including depleted training budgets, overworked staff, and rapidly-changing technology, that hinder the ability—and willingness—of employees to continue job education in library sciences.
