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UNINA9910781077503321 |
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Tunstall Patricia |
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Hiring, Training, and Supervising Library Shelvers [[electronic resource]] |
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Chicago, : ALA Editions, 2009 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (121 p.) |
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ALA guides for the busy librarian Hiring, training, and supervising library shelvers |
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Soggetti |
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Libraries Staff manuals |
Library pages |
Library personnel management |
Library & Information Science |
Social Sciences |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Looking for Recruits; 2. Interviewing and Hiring; INTERVIEWING; Hours; Physical Requirements; HIRING; Selection; 3. Training; SHELVING; AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS; SHELF READING; SHIFTING; CLOSING PROCEDURES; MISCELLANEOUS TASKS; SHELVERS DON'T DO REFERENCE!; PERSONAL SAFETY; TRAINING LOGS; A WORD ABOUT VOLUNTEERS; 4. Day-to-Day Supervising; ALLOCATION OF DUTIES; SCHEDULING; PAGE MEETINGS; NOTICE BOARDS; PAGE MANUALS; WEB PAGES; 5. Keeping Your Shelvers in Good Order; NONAPPEARANCE FOR A SCHEDULED SHIFT; HABITUAL LATENESS OR POOR TIMEKEEPING |
INAPPROPRIATE DRESSINAPPROPRIATE TALKING AND SOCIALIZING; UNDERPERFORMANCE; NO LONGER UP TO THE JOB?; WHEN IT GETS PERSONAL; WHAT TO DO ABOUT PARENTS; SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO FIRE THEM; 6. Performance Assessment; 7. Working with Other Departments; 8. Looking After the Supervisor; 9. The Big Moves: Your Chance to Shine; WHY IT MAKES SENSE TO DO IT YOURSELF; WHERE DO I START?; WHAT DO I DO WITH THIS RIDICULOUSLY LARGE NUMBER?; IS |
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IT REALLY NECESSARY TO TAG THE COLLECTION?; HOW DO I FIX IT?; WHAT NEXT?; ARE WE READY TO MOVE YET?; AND AWAY YOU GO |
HOW DO I PERSUADE MY COLLEAGUES THAT THIS IS A GOOD IDEA?SOME QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE; Appendix: Forms and Tools; Vacant Position Sign; Additional Interview Questions; Alternative Shelving Quiz; Shelving Quiz; Dewey Numbers; Alphabetical Order; Sample Letter: Thanks but No Thanks; Sample Letter: No Thanks This Time; Apointment Letter; Training Slip; Page Job Description; Booktown Public Library Job Description; Daily Page Work Assignments; Daily Log; Shelving Supervisor's Monthly Report November 20XX; Staff; Collections; Shelf Reading; Meetings; Conduct Agreement |
Shelver Performance EvaluationPage/Shelver Manual; Schedule; Salary; Conduct; Library Privileges; Vacations; Reviews; General Guidelines for Shelving Books; Fiction; Nonfiction; Special Collections: Youth Services; Special Collections: Adult Services; Audiovisual Collections; Shelf Reading Procedure; CleanUp Procedures; Contents Checking; Emptying Outside Book Drop; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; H; I; J; M; N; P; R; S; T; U; V; W |
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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. |
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UNINA9910958361503321 |
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Autore |
Wilson Shaun <1971-> |
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The struggle over work : the 'end of work" and employment alternatives for post-industrial societies / / Shaun Wilson, with the assistance of Peter McCarthy |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2004 |
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1-134-40491-3 |
0-203-35267-X |
1-134-40492-1 |
1-280-07750-6 |
0-203-40592-7 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (243 p.) |
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Routledge frontiers of political economy ; ; 60 |
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Labor economics |
Work - Social aspects |
Labor policy - United States |
Labor movement |
United States Social policy 1993- |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-219) and index. |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The sociological sources of contemporary pessimism; Pessimistic origins: work in classical sociology; Work and the post-industrial pessimists; Post-industrial pessimism and three alternatives for work and society; Work without limit? Work and welfare in the US model; The basic income challenge to work and welfare; Labour movements and work: exhausted alliances or new challenges?; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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The future of work in advanced industrial democracies is the subject of intense debate and public concern. Despite predictions that working hours would fall and leisure time would rise as society progressed, the opposite has in fact occurred. This new book contains a twofold investigation into 'the end of work' with theoretical and policy angles |
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contributing to the growing research field on the boundaries of economics and sociology. |
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