Primary Research Group. The
Survey of Library Employee Training Practices. Primary Research Group,
November 2, 2012. 023.8 Surve ISBN 1-57440-201-3
This 100+page report looks closely
at how public, academic and special libraries train their employees. It gives
detailed data on spending on training, and on how libraries prioritize spending
on training. The report helps to answer questions such as: how many libraries
and what type of libraries have specific training budgets and training
directors? Do they conduct internal courses? Send employees to external
courses? Use library science schools? Do they reimburse employees for library
science courses taken at universities? How much do they spend on internal
courses, external courses or library science schools? Who oversees training?
Which areas receive the most training support? Technical services? Information
technology? Digitization? Circulation? Management? To what extent does the
library use training services such as LibraryU, Merlot or Webjunction?