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Library Staff Development Handbook

Supporting Your Most Important Resource

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Library Staff Development Handbook

Supporting Your Most Important Resource

Description

From planning to hiring to advocating for staff, this second edition provides practical tools, tips, templates, and reports from practitioners in the field.

In order to address some of our societal shifts and changes since the publication of the first edition, this new volume has been updated throughout. New sections have been added and include promoting staff morale during challenging times, providing a safe work environment, coaching remote workers, and attending to diversity and biases in the library workplace. A new chapter dedicated to working with library supervisory boards has also been included.

In keeping with the first edition, this new volume applies to a wide variety of library settings and includes numerous tips, resource suggestions, and “real life” examples. Throughout the book, practitioners across libraries and library systems, from academic, public, urban, and rural settings share their experiences when it comes to the joys and challenges of the day-to-day tasks of supporting staff. After all, libraries don't work without their most vital resource, the folks who run them.

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  • WCAG level AA
  • WCAG v2.2 compliant

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Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments

1. Background
2. Staffing and Organizational Planning
3. Attracting Stars
4. Engaging Staff
5. Staff Development
6. Staff Reviews
7. Working with Supervisory Boards
8. Advocating for Staff
9. Onward

Index

Product details

Published 05 Feb 2026
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 2nd
Pages 176
ISBN 9798881800024
Imprint Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited
Illustrations 6 bw illus
Series Medical Library Association Books Series
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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