1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781077503321

Autore

Tunstall Patricia

Titolo

Hiring, Training, and Supervising Library Shelvers [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : ALA Editions, 2009

ISBN

0-8389-9732-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (121 p.)

Collana

ALA guides for the busy librarian Hiring, training, and supervising library shelvers

Disciplina

020

023/.3

20

Soggetti

Libraries Staff manuals

Library pages

Library personnel management

Library & Information Science

Social Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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



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

Sommario/riassunto

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.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910958361503321

Autore

Wilson Shaun <1971->

Titolo

The struggle over work : the 'end of work" and employment alternatives for post-industrial societies / / Shaun Wilson, with the assistance of Peter McCarthy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2004

ISBN

1-134-40491-3

0-203-35267-X

1-134-40492-1

1-280-07750-6

0-203-40592-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (243 p.)

Collana

Routledge frontiers of political economy ; ; 60

Disciplina

331/.01

Soggetti

Labor economics

Work - Social aspects

Labor policy - United States

Labor movement

United States Social policy 1993-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-219) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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



contributing to the growing research field on the boundaries of economics and sociology.