Training Skills for Library Staff
Published on 28. August 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
248 pages
978-0-8108-4747-7 (ISBN)
Description
"Neuro-linguistic programming? In my library?" Many information and library practitioners are engaged in training activities in their daily work, and both need and want to know about new approaches to learning. In Training Skills for Library Staff, veteran trainer Barbara Allan takes the mystery out of the potentially unfamiliar and the mindless from the tried and true. Beginning with a compelling discussion of learning styles and how to apply them, Allan demonstrates best practice skills for designing, delivering, and assessing effective training programs, as both single events and a continuous professional development program. Ideas, activities and techniques abound, as well as listings of contacts and sources of information. First published in the UK in 2000, Training Skills for Library Staff has been revised and updated for a North American audience by management expert Barbara Moran. Now, as then, it offers a wealth of information upon which you will draw many times over.
Reviews / Votes
Practical guidance is the text's strong suit, enough theoretical bases are included to give the user an understanding of the "whys" behind the prescribed "hows"...highly recommended for all libraries where staff interact with each other or a user group. * VOYA * Review of UK edition: The book is eminently accessible, effectively laid-out and is organised in such a way as to attract both those who want to read it from cover to cover and those just wishing to dip into specific topicsssss * Library Management * Review of UK edition: This book is ideal, particularly for a new trainer requiring support in delivering training sessions or for experienced trainers seeking new inspiration. * Sconul Newsletter * Training Skills for Library Staff provides a set of ideas, tools and techniques to help library services trainers' deliver high-quality training events....It is comprehensively indexed and contains a bibliography of further reading and easily obtainable training resources, as well as a section on continuing professional development aimed at extending the trainer's own competence. It would be a valuable resource in the library of training organizations as well as any library investing time and money in training programmes. * Library Review * Teaching is a skill that can be learned, as is designing appropriate training experiences for library staff. And this book can help....The book does not have to be read from front to back to be useful as it is constructed to be dipped into as needed....By using the methods recommended in Training Skills for Library Staff, library trainers could create training that is better suited to perceived needs, and the library can therefore reap real benefits from its scarce training dollars. * Techknow * Provides new ideas, tools, and techniques on training in the field of information and library services...Moran's presentation is readable and easily accessible. New and experienced trainers will find inspiration here. * Booklist, 12/1/2003 * Review of UK edition: The book is eminently accessible, effectively laid-out and is organised in such a way as to attract both those who want to read it from cover to cover and those just wishing to dip into specific topics * Library Management *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Lanham, MD
United States
Dimensions
Height: 277 mm
Width: 209 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
576 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8108-4747-7 (9780810847477)
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Persons
Barbara Moran is professor at the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Barbara Allan is a Senior Lecturer in student learning and management learning at the Hull University Business School, UK.