The Library Staff Development Handbook

Mary Grace Flaherty

Provide practical strategies and proven methods for fostering professional growth and enhancing skills among library staff. Whether you’re a librarian, manager, or educator, this book offers invaluable insights into designing effective training programs, promoting career advancement, and cultivating a culture of continuous learning. Empower your staff to excel in their roles and elevate your library’s impact with this essential resource on staff development.

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The Library Staff Development Handbook

How to Maximize Your Library’s Most Important Resource

Mary Grace Flaherty

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 154 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-1-4422-7035-0 • Hardback • August 2017 • $116.00 • (£89.00)
978-1-4422-7036-7 • Paperback • August 2017 • $62.00 • (£48.00)
978-1-4422-7037-4 • eBook • August 2017 • $56.00 • (£43.00)

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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.

About the Author

Mary Grace Flaherty is an assistant professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received her PhD from Syracuse University and holds master’s degrees from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland.