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Record Nr.

UNINA9910151563103321

Autore

Pratchett Tracey

Titolo

Practical tips for developing your staff / / Tracey Pratchett [and four others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Facet, , 2016

ISBN

1-78330-180-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

Practical Tips for Library and Information Professionals

Disciplina

025.52068

Soggetti

Information services - Management

Library administration - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

aSection 1 Theories: 1. Understanding how people behave, learn and develop; 2. Kolb learning cycle and styles; 3. Honey and Mumford -- learning styles; 4. VAK learning styles; 5. MBTI® -- Myers Briggs® Type Indicator; 6. Jigsaw Discovery Tool©; 7. The DiSC® model; 8. Benziger Thinking Styles Assessment (BTSA); 9. SDI -- Strength Deployment Inventory®; 10. Kirkpatrick's four levels of evaluation model; Section 2 Infrastructure: 11. Why develop staff? 12. Workforce planning; 13. Job descriptions; 14. Person specifications; 15. Advertisements; 16. Shortlisting; 17. Interviews; 18. Interviews -- presentations and tests; 19. Interviews -- feedback; 20. Inductions; 21. Managing performance; 22. Team development plans; 23. Appraisals -- preparing; 24. Appraisals -- conducting; 25. Setting objectives; 26. One-to-ones; 27. Feedback -- general; 28. Team building; 29. Team meetings; 30. Sharing learning with the team; 31. Writing references; 32. Exit interviews; 33. Effective handover; Section 3 Activities and tools: 34. Action learning sets ; 35. Apprentices, graduate trainees and work placements; 36. Awards; 37. Buddying; 38. CILIP qualifications; 39. CILIP qualifications -- revalidation; 40. Coaching; 41. Collaborative working; 42. Communities of practice -- internal; 43. Communities of practice -- external; 44. Conferences -- attending; 45. Conferences -- organizing; 46. Conferences -- posters; 47. Conferences -- presenting; 48. Conferences -- sharing the learning; 49. Conferences



-- volunteering; 50. Conferences -- workshops; 51. Conferences -- writing proposals for papers; 52. CVs; 53. Exchange of Experience events, TeachMeets and Unconferences; 54. Formal qualifications; 55. Funding for CPD; 56. Group conversations; 57. Job rotation; 58. Learning logs and journals; 59. Meetings -- attending; 60. Meetings -- chairing; 61. Meetings -- note taking; 62. Mentoring -- external; 63. Mentoring -- peer; 64. Minutes of madness; 65. MOOCs; 66. Networks; 67. Networks -- setting up; 68. Networks -- running; 69. Personal development plans; 70. Presentations -- general tips; 71. Professional membership; 72. Projects; 73. Project management tools; 74. Reflection -- facilitating; 75. Reflective practice76. Reflective writing; 77. Research activities; 78. Secondments; 79. Shadowing; 80. Social media; 81. SWOT analysis; 82. Time management; 83. Time management tools; 84. Training courses -- attending; 85. Training courses -- commissioning; 86. Training courses -- planning, delivering and evaluating; 87. Twitter; 88. Twitter chats; 89. VLEs; 90. Visits; 91. Volunteering; 92. Webinars; 93. Writing blog posts; 94. Writing business cases; 95. Writing case studies; 96. Writing e-mails; 97. Writing journal articles; 98. Writing newsletters; 99. Writing procedures; 100. Writing project plans; 101. Writing reports.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers innovative tips and tried-and-tested best practice to enable library and knowledge workers to take control of professional development regardless of the budget and time available to them. Continuing professional development (CPD) is a key component of a successful and satisfying career. Part of the <i>Practical Tips for Library and Information Professionals</i> series, this book offer a wide range of ideas and methods for all library and information professionals to manage the development of those who work for and with them.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783977503321

Autore

Biger Gideon

Titolo

The boundaries of modern Palestine, 1840-1947 / / Gideon Biger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2004

ISBN

1-135-76651-7

1-135-76652-5

1-280-10393-0

0-203-30952-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 p.)

Collana

RoutledgeCurzon studies in Middle Eastern history ; ; 1

Disciplina

956.94

956.9404

Soggetti

Palestine History

Palestine Boundaries History

Palestine Foreign relations

Palestine History 1799-1917

Palestine History 1917-1948

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously published in Hebrew by Ben Gurion University Press.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [244]-248) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Introduction: the boundary and its role in historical-political existence; The delimitation of the country at the end of the Ottoman period; The allocation stage: World War I and the division of the Middle East; The southern boundary during the British period; The northern boundary: from allocation to delimitation; The northern boundary: demarcation and administration; The eastern boundary; The partition plans, 1937-1947; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Boundary limitation is a crucial issue in the Middle East, and the boundaries marked out during the years 1840 to 1947 are still one of the major issues in today's political discussions concerning Israel and its surrounding countries.This book, which is based on extensive archival research, deals with the first stage of the delimitation of the boundaries of modern Palestine, between the years 1840 and 1947. During this period, the boundaries of Palestine were staked out by



foreign, imperial forces (Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire) which placed them according to their desires, withou