This set of materials on staff development in research libraries was assembled by the Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). Selected portions of management studies, reviews, and evaluations are included from the University of Washington Libraries, the University of Rochester Library, the University of Connecticut, the University of Tennessee Library, and the Smithsonian Institution Libraries. A collection of documents pertaining to staff development at the University of Tennessee includes proposals for management development and communication skills programs; a participant evaluation and description of the staff development program; a checklist of staff development opportunities at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Library; and modules of a communication skills series workshop. Additional contents of the set include: (1) a description of the staff orientation program from the University of Michigan; (2) a description of the staff development committee and program from the University of Washington; (3) guidelines for a proposed supervisory training program from Boston University; (4) material used in a program for the implementation of a performance objectives system, a description of staff development activities, and the annual report of the staff development coordinator from Columbia University; and (5) a job description for an inservice training job coordinator from the University of California at Berkeley. (KM)