Recruiting Library Staff: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians

by Kathleen Low

Are some ways better than others to attract a desirable candidate pool? How can a manager target potential employees with the necessary characteristics and skills? What perception do applicants have... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555703550
• ISBN13: 9781555703554
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Neal-Schuman Publishers
• Length: 136 Pages

Customer Reviews

Finally a fresh look at recruiting

Ms. Low provides a much needed fresh look at recruitment. As a long time librarian, I'm dismayed how many libraries still follow traditional recruiting practices that are no longer effective in today's job market. And too much recruiting, and books on library recruiting are written by the "old school" of librarians who need to move away from traditional recruiting techniques, and look beyond their close circle of long time external recruiters to get in synch with the times. Ms. Low's book provokes readers to view recruiting the same way that private industry views its recruiting. She views recruiting as a competitive activity, and provides the reader with excellent advice on how they can compete for the best applicants. Librarians need to read this book and update their recrutiting practicies if they have any hope of their libraries surviving in the future economy. The book is a complete "How-To-Do-It" guide for anyone involved in recruiting library staff, and contains invaluable appendicies. This is a "must read" for all library managers, library school students, and any "old school" librarians open to new ideas.