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Direct linkAneta Kwak – College & Research Libraries, 2025
Introducing accessibility initiatives is increasing across academic libraries and effective library staff training is one of the factors for the successful implementation and continuity of any accessibility endeavours. This case study outlines the development of a training program to teach student library assistances to format scanned PDFs to be…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Personnel, Training Methods, Program Development
Download full textHoward, Jody K. – Knowledge Quest, 2015
In January 2012, a group of four school library professors attending the ALA Midwinter Meeting were having lunch and discussing various issues related to the school library field. These school library professors agreed that one challenge facing the profession is preparing future leaders. As current school library leaders retire, it is difficult to…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Library Administration, Leadership Role, Leadership Training
Devine, Christopher; Paladino, Emily Bounds; Davis, John A. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2011
The first comprehensive national survey of all academic libraries in the United States which were conducting chat reference service was carried out to determine: what practices were being used to prepare personnel for chat reference service, what competencies were being taught, how and why training practices may have changed over time, and what…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Reference Services, Synchronous Communication, National Surveys
Lee, Marta K. – ALA Editions, 2011
Mentorship is essential to the health of any institution; sharing knowledge and experience transforms managers into stronger leaders and helps less senior employees improve their job skills. Noted reference librarian and researcher Lee offers librarians at all levels both her experience and her ideas about establishing a formal mentoring process…
Descriptors: Mentors, Library Science, Job Skills, Librarians
Miller, Robin E. – Public Services Quarterly, 2011
Communities of practice offer reference librarians a conceptual model through which to develop and maintain general and subject specific knowledge. Reference librarians acquire general and subject-specific knowledge in many ways, sometimes independently and sometimes collaboratively. Applying the concept of the "community of practice" to reference…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Reference Services, Librarians, Concept Teaching
Curry, Elizabeth A.; Smithee, Jeannette – Resource Sharing & Information Networks, 2009
The Southeast Florida Library and Information Network (SEFLIN) has presented the Sun Seeker Leadership Institute biennially since 1997. SEFLIN, a multitype library consortium headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, was one of the first groups to sponsor a library leadership institute held as a monthly series of events over the period of a year. One…
Descriptors: Library Personnel, Consortia, Library Networks, Library Administration
