The Library Staff Development Handbook: How to Maximize Your Library’s Most Important Resource (Medical Library Association Books Series)

From crafting a job description to recruitment, hiring and retention, and from progressive discipline and succession planning to continuing education, performance appraisals, and the importance of workplace fun, this handbook can serve as a companion for managers, supervisors and library staff as they negotiate the challenging range of staffing issues and the opportunities they provide in the library setting.. The Library Staff Development Handbook: How to Maximize Your Library’s Most Important Resource provides practical tips, suggestions for resources, and concrete examples for addressing the multiple and varied aspects of staff development

. She received her PhD from Syracuse University and holds master’s degrees from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland. Mary Grace Flaherty is an assistant professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

(Barbara Stripling, Senior Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Practice, School of Information Studies, Syracuse Unviersity, President, American Library Association, 2013-2014 and President, New York Library Association, 2016-2017) . Supervisors will want to keep this book handy and refer to it often. Librarians and library supervisors who have the responsibility for empowering and nurturing their staffs will find real gems of practical advice, templates, tips, and personal connections in this staff development handbook. In this guide, Flaherty has captured the positive, supportive, and nurturing tone that libraries must create within their organizations to recruit, hire, train, and maintain effective and engaged staffs