Short-term staff, long-term benefits : making the most of interns, volunteers, student workers, and temporary staff in libraries / Nora J. Bird and Michael A. Crumpton, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bird, Nora J., editor.

Crumpton, Michael A., editor.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 143 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2023.

Place of Publication:

Libraries Unlimited, 2018.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

This book offers a novel, more efficient, and mutually beneficial approach to attracting, training, and working with short-term staff in ways that benefit all involved: the organization, the short-term staff, and library personnel in general. After recent cutbacks in funding, many libraries now suffer permanent gaps in their staffing-gaps that have necessarily been filled by temporary staff and volunteers in order to complete essential work. Unfortunately, short-term staffing presents its own issues. But having temporary staff doesn't have to be problematic or frustrating: this book shows how short-term workers can offer libraries much more than just a solution to being shorthanded. This book will help readers better plan and more efficiently manage short-term staffing arrangements, covering how to best work with community volunteers, students earning service or academic credit, library school internships, grant contract staff, librarian post-graduate residencies, and work-study student employees. The authors present models of temporary staff human resource development and demonstrate how to apply them effectively in libraries of any size, describing how to train and enculturate short-term staff into your organization to maximize productivity. When temporary and long-term staff are set up to work together properly, having temporary staff benefits the organization with more than just their labor-the situation can refresh and update the skills of incumbent employees, too.

Contents:

1. Introduction to short-term experiences / Nora J. Bird and Michael A. Crumpton

2. General considerations : individual and organizational learning / Nora J. Bird

3. Working with faculty and sponsors for academic credit / Nora J. Bird

4. Working with grant funding and project-based staff / David Gwynn

5. Residencies / Michael A. Crumpton

6. Virtual internships / Mark Coltrain

7. Academic libraries : learning is central to the mission / Michael A. Crumpton and Nora J. Bird

8. Public libraries : managing volunteers and interns / Katrina C. Vernon

9. Special collections and archives : thinking outside of the box for innovative staffing / Kathelene McCarty Smith and Keith Phelan Gorman

10. Final considerations / Nora J. Bird and Michael A. Crumpton.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798216014546

9798216144984

9781440841774

1440841772

OCLC:

1047523648