Library Staff Development Handbook: Supporting Your Most Important Resource

By Mary Grace Flaherty

How do you promote staff morale or provide a safe work environment during challenging times? Or how do you work with library supervisory boards? Learn this and more in this updated handbook.

From planning to hiring to advocating for staff, this second edition provides practical tools, tips, templates, and reports from practitioners in the field. In keeping with the first edition, this new volume applies to a wide variety of library settings and includes numerous tips, resource suggestions, and "real life" examples.

Throughout the book, practitioners across libraries and library systems, from academic, public, urban, and rural settings share their experiences when it comes to the joys and challenges of the day-to-day tasks of supporting staff. After all, libraries don't work without their most vital resource, the folks who run them.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F78KJSVV
• ISBN13: 9798881800000
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited
• Length: 200 Pages