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The library staff development handbook : how to maximize your library's most important resource / Mary Grace Flaherty.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Medical Library Association booksPublisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: xiii, 139 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781442270350
  • 1442270357
  • 9781442270367
  • 1442270365
Subject(s):
Contents:
Essential background -- Staffing and organizational planning -- Attracting the best and brightest -- Staff engagement : creating opportunities -- Staff development -- Staff evaluation -- Additional funding sources for staffing activities -- Going forward.
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 and recruiting, hiring, and retaining staff to progressive discipline, succession planning, 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. -- from back cover.
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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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Essential background -- Staffing and organizational planning -- Attracting the best and brightest -- Staff engagement : creating opportunities -- Staff development -- Staff evaluation -- Additional funding sources for staffing activities -- Going forward.

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 and recruiting, hiring, and retaining staff to progressive discipline, succession planning, 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. -- from back cover.

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