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Direct linkHoward, Jody K. – Knowledge Quest, 2015
In January 2012, a group of four school library professors attending the ALA Midwinter Meeting were having lunch and discussing various issues related to the school library field. These school library professors agreed that one challenge facing the profession is preparing future leaders. As current school library leaders retire, it is difficult to…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Library Administration, Leadership Role, Leadership Training
Krasulski, Michael J. – Journal of Access Services, 2014
Since the late 1970s, the access services librarian or equivalent position has become commonplace in academic libraries, and degreed professionals have been sought for these positions since the beginning. In 2009, David McCaslin, California Institute of Technology, examined the place of access services in American Library Association-accredited…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Staff Development, Library Personnel
Lonergan, David – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2011
Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was an efficiency expert whose concerns were less about avoiding worker fatigue and more about increasing profit margins by any means necessary. Taylor was devoted to finding the One Best Way to carry out a task and then training workers to do that task unvaryingly; attempts by employees to improve their own…
Descriptors: Job Training, Workplace Literacy, Library Administration, Library Services
Lai, Horng-Ji – Educational Technology & Society, 2011
The purpose of this study was to explore the current state of information literacy (IL) training and to identify the strategies and methods used by Canadian public libraries in improving IL skills for their staff and patrons. Also, the study sought to identify problems associated with the development of IL training. This study employed document…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Interviews, Public Libraries, Foreign Countries
Curry, Elizabeth A.; Smithee, Jeannette – Resource Sharing & Information Networks, 2009
The Southeast Florida Library and Information Network (SEFLIN) has presented the Sun Seeker Leadership Institute biennially since 1997. SEFLIN, a multitype library consortium headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, was one of the first groups to sponsor a library leadership institute held as a monthly series of events over the period of a year. One…
Descriptors: Library Personnel, Consortia, Library Networks, Library Administration
Blowers, Helene; Reed, Lori – Computers in Libraries, 2007
This article explains a two-part plan, created by the people at the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County (PLCMC), to help staff members keep up with the sea change of technology. A core competencies training program was developed. This keeps workers afloat by providing them with the technology skills they need to support the change…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Staff Development, Library Administration, Technology
