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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

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Description

How do you promote staff morale or provide a safe work environment during challenging times? Or how do you work with library supervisory boards? Learn this and more in this updated handbook.

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

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 Jan 08 2026
Format Hardback
Edition 2nd
Extent 200
ISBN 9798881800000
Imprint Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited
Illustrations 6 bw illus
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Series Medical Library Association Books Series
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Mary Grace Flaherty

Mary Grace Flaherty is professor emerita at the Sc…

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