TITLE: Hiring, Training, and Supervising Library Shelvers
AUTHOR: Patricia Tunstall
STARTED: June 6, 2010
FINISHED: June 17, 2010
PAGES: 109
GENRE: Library Science
FIRST SENTENCE: There is more than one way to end up as a supervisor of library pages.
SUMMARY: [From amazon.com
] How do you find good library shelvers and keep them for more than a few months? Tunstall gives practical advice to help you do just that with a complete overview on how to hire, test, train, and retain shelvers. A complete toolkit, this book includes templates for signs advertising employment, screening tests, interview questions, employment letters, job descriptions, and employee assessments; the dos and don ts of hiring and firing; checklists for procedures and training.Every librarian will be able to hire, train, and supervise library shelvers with confidence with Tunstall s down-to earth advice.
THOUGHTS: If I was new to my position, this book would have been a lifesaver. I've been the Stacks Supervisor of a university library for a few years and, while this book did teach me a few things, it mainly reinforced many of my current procedures. I highly recommend this book to someone new to this type of supervisory position, particularly if it's in a public library.
My one quibble is that this book feels tailored to the author's library. I wish she had made mention of or included information from other types of libraries. While much of the information can be easily translated to the reader's situation, it would have been nice to see what the author had in mind.
RATING: 7/10 [Very Good]
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