The Library Staff Development Handbook: How to Maximize Your Library’s Most Important Resource

Medical Library Association Books Series

by Mary Grace Flaherty

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. 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.

Genres: Nonfiction

154 pages, Paperback

Published August 8, 2017

Reviews

[Megan · Rating 5 out of 5]

From 2/1/18 Library Journal: “Flaherty offers library staff with varying levels of supervising experience an accessible, well-organized guide filled with a plethora of resources,” wrote reviewer Katie McGaha. “New supervisors will find rubrics and charts on, for instance, evaluating job candidates’ interview responses, invaluable.”

In her final verdict, McGaha wrote that Flaherty’s book is “Highly recommended for current and aspiring library supervisors interested in building their management skills and developing an efficient and cohesive staff.”