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Quality in Library Service: A Competency-Based Staff Training Program First North American Edition (Library Science Series)

Quality in Library Service: A Competency-Based Staff Training Program First North American Edition (Library Science Series)

          
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QUALITY IN LIBRARY SERVICE: A Competency-Based Staff Training Program First North American Edition (Library Science Series)

  • A Complete Professional Development Package:

  • Training Manual With Slides, Role Plays, Forms, Quizzes:

  • This practical staff training program for libraries is rooted in two key concepts: 1) the quality management philosophy and techniques of famed "Total Quality" expert William Edwards Deming and 2) the constant need for library staff to keep up to date with changing customer needs, new technology, and new ways to save time and costs. The program has been field tested and used effectively in many Australian libraries, and now has been thoroughly adapted for North American venues in this special edition. Its purpose is to achieve consistent, high-quality performance at all library information service points by.
  • Focusing staff on agreed service expectations and client satisfaction

  • Providing staff with the skills and support needed to achieve and maintain identified service standards

  • Identifying and addressing skills gaps

  • Extending the competencies of inexperienced and experienced staff

  • Emphasizing teamwork as an essential extension of individual competency

  • Integrating electronic with print resources and document delivery with inhouse resources

  • Obtaining staff input into policies and procedures

  • Encouraging lifelong learning in staff

  • The program involves self-paced reading; ?hands-on use of resources; ?review questions; activities; ?role-plays; ?evaluation of electronic resources; ?mock inquiries requiring the development of searchstrategies and the evaluation of resources; and ?small-group or individual discussion and debriefing.
    Learning aids include downloadable and customizable electronic text, including trainee material, overhead/PowerPoint slides, and handouts.
    Quality in Library Service is one of 12 library skills study aids published by TotalRecall Publications, Inc. Please see the back of this book for a complete listing, or visit www.totalrecallpress.com
    Jennifer Burrell has served in a number of management positions during her 25 years in librarianship and is currently Manager of Library and Information Service for the City Council in Hurstville, New South Wales, Australia.
    Brad McGrath is a professional librarian who currently serves as Manager of Customer Service and Order Management for James Bennett, a major library book wholesaler in New South Wales, Australia.
    TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • The Program

  • Introduction
    The QILS Program
    Assessment
    A Basic Client Service System
  • Trainer Manual

  • Unit 1: Identifying Client Needs
    Role-plays 1
    Unit 2: Search Strategy and Common Resources
    Unit 3: Values, Policies and Procedures
    Review of Units 1 - 3
    Unit 4: Complex Searching
    Role-plays 2
    Unit 5: Assessment
    Self-Assessment Form
    Colleague Survey Form
    Client Survey Form
    Colleague and Client Feedback Simulations
    Unit by Unit Assessment and Final Review
    Sample Certificate
    Slides
  • Trainee Material

  • Downloadable Files


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    Product Details
    • ISBN-13: 9781590958124
    • Publisher: Totalrecall Publications
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Language: English
    • Returnable: N
    • Spine Width: 11 mm
    • Width: 207 mm
    • ISBN-10: 1590958128
    • Publisher Date: 20 May 2007
    • Height: 292 mm
    • No of Pages: 208
    • Series Title: English
    • Weight: 513 gr


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