Innovative Library Workplaces

Lisa Kallman Hopkins

ISBN 13: 9798892555357

Edité par Association of College and Research Libraries, US, 2025

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Good workplaces require both autonomy-giving employees a sense of ownership over how and where they work-and collaboration in pursuit of common goals. They see employees for who they are and support them, pay them enough money to live comfortably, and provide the resources, training, and support they need to be successful.   In two parts, Innovative Library Workplaces provides the tools you need to make your workplace a good one for your employees. Human Resources in Libraries Recruiting and Hiring Onboarding and Training Salary Studies and Unions Work Culture and Organization Employee Morale Flexible Work Arrangements Strategic Planning and Reorganizing  Though this book took root during the pandemic, it is not of the pandemic: The changes wrought are permanent. Innovative Library Workplaces proposes a way forward after this monumental disruption, recognizing that neither the pandemic nor the work culture prior to it is a good model for what comes next.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Innovative Library Workplaces
• Éditeur: Association of College and Research Libraries, US
• Date de parution: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9798892555357
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

Good workplaces require both autonomy—giving employees a sense of ownership over how and where they work—and collaboration in pursuit of common goals. They see employees for who they are and support them, pay them enough money to live comfortably, and provide the resources, training, and support they need to be successful.
 
In two parts, Innovative Library Workplaces provides the tools you need to make your workplace a good one for your employees.

• Human Resources in Libraries
  • Recruiting and Hiring
  • Onboarding and Training
  • Salary Studies and Unions
• Work Culture and Organization
  • Employee Morale
  • Flexible Work Arrangements
  • Strategic Planning and Reorganizing 
  Though this book took root during the pandemic, it is not of the pandemic: The changes wrought are permanent. Innovative Library Workplaces proposes a way forward after this monumental disruption, recognizing that neither the pandemic nor the work culture prior to it is a good model for what comes next.

À propos de l?auteur

Lisa Kallman Hopkins is an associate librarian at Texas A&M University-Central Texas in Killeen near Fort Cavazos. She is the head of Technical Services and assistant dean of the University Library and Archives. In her role as head of Technical Services, she is directly responsible for systems and e-resources and manages cataloging and acquisitions, interlibrary loan, e-reserves, and textbook reserves. She is the university copyright specialist and copyeditor. She has submitted chapters to Transforming Acquisitions and Collection Services: Perspectives on Collaboration within and across Libraries and Technical Services: Adapting to the Changing Environment; has coauthored a chapter in Universal Design for Learning in Academic Libraries: Theory into Practice; and has coedited this book.
 
Bridgit McCafferty is the dean of the University Library and Archives at Texas A&M University-Central Texas and has led the library for eleven years. Prior to this, she was in charge of reference and instruction services. She has taken on major administrative projects for her university, including recently chairing the SACSCOC Accreditation Reaffirmation Compliance Committee. She is the author of Library Management: A Practical Guide for Librarians and the coauthor of British Postmodernism: Strategies and Sources.