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Hicks, Deborah – Australian Library Journal, 2011
Mentorship is often considered one of the best ways to develop leadership potential in new library and information professionals. Mentors act as teacher, role model, and cheerleader, but there are potentially serious aspects to mentorships that will negatively impact the protege. Such negatives include mentors sabotaging or taking credit for a…
Descriptors: Mentors, Supervisor Supervisee Relationship, Supervisory Methods, Social Cognition
Haines, Rebecca; Calvert, Philip J. – Australian Library Journal, 2009
The aim of this research was to investigate current issues faced by public library staff in rural South Australia and to examine some of the reasons why people choose to work in rural libraries. The study took a mixed methods approach, combining interviews and questionnaires to gain a fuller understanding of the issues and experiences of rural…
Descriptors: Library Personnel, Public Libraries, Rural Areas, Foreign Countries
Sloan, Julie – Australian Library Journal, 2008
Library and Information Services (LIS) providers are vulnerable in the current war for talent. They need to work collaboratively to develop accurate workforce data so they can retain and recruit the right people. In South Australia, the issue has a level of urgency above other States as the demographic is skewed to older workers. Organisations…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Services, Older Workers, Library Services
Mackenzie, Christine – Australian Library Journal, 2008
The paper describes the introduction of Web 2.0 techniques and tools at the Yarra Plenty public library in Victoria, beginning with library staff. The author argues that as libraries move from Web 1.0 type delivery systems to the social networking world of Library 2.0 librarians need to deploy and make accessible these radically different systems,…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Library Personnel, Public Libraries, Library Services