Description 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.
Crumpton, MLS, SPHR, is assistant dean for administrative services at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and former director of library services at Wake Tech Community College..
Michael A.
Bird, MSLIS, Ph D, is associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
About the author Nora J.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Unfortunately, Short-Term staffing presents its own issues.
Description 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
