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

Flaherty, Mary Grace. The Library Staff Development Handbook: How to Maximize Your Library’s Most Important Resource. Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. ISBN: 978-1-4422-7036-7.

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.