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• Training Approaches
  • most effective instruction is provided in the context of specific tasks
  • effective training increase staff satisfaction reducing turnover
    • principles of adult learning
      • relevance
      • prior experience
      • certifications
  • training cost typically 3%-5% of payroll budget
  • transaction logs analysis may offer training opportunities
  • systems web site example: http://libweb.uoregon.edu/systems/
• Campus Resources

• Service Orientation
  • creating and motivating service-oriented team: Walters (1994)
  • oblige to users' desire to understand status
  • there may be levels of service for categories of users
• Help Desk Services

• Development
  • useful convert operating funds into endowments
  • sponsor used book sales
  • individual or corporate donation may present ethical concerns: preferential services
• Technology Fees
• Grants
  • writing grant applications is an invaluable skill:
    • Fundraising for libraries Swan (2002)

• Stakeholders
  • users
  • computing center
  • chief library administrator
  • ILS
  • consortia membeship (volume purchasing power)
    • shared technology and infrastructure
• National Organizations
  • which act in
    • legislative advocacy
    • lobbying key technology policy issues
  • state libraries are mediators with legislatures

Including:
Collegiality Supporting
Library Patrons
Professional Reading
Research and Scholarship
Leadership
Stress

Including:
The Systems Librarian
Teams and Hierarchies
Organization Charts
Centralization and Branches
Telecommuting
Recruiting
Job Description and Performance Reviews

• Staffing and Reporting Lines
  • supervision of staff consumes a significant portion of a manager's time
    • 7-10 reports max
  • centralized versus distributed systems staff model--consider a blend: technical liaison=a unit based personnel willing to partecipate in higher-level training

Including:
Strategic Planning
Policy Development
Budget
Planning Tools
Writing a Technological Plan
Project Management
Statistics and Decision Making
Integrated Library System Migration
Local Standards
Replacement Cycles
Disaster Preparedness and Recovery

Planning

Ingersoll, P., & Culshaw, J. (2004). Managing information technology: a handbook for systems librarians. Libraries Unlimited library management collection. Westport, Conn: Libraries Unlimited.
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From Denise Goetting: "LIBR 248 – Beginning Cataloging & Classification"
Lesson 1: Lecture on Library Catalogs

Functions of a catalog: