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Staff Development Days
11:22 AM EDT 8/20/07
Does your library have a Staff Development Day where you close the library (or system if you part of a county library) for an entire day? If so, what do you do? Also, what time of year do you hold it?
We are going in to our 3rd year of having a Staff Development Day and every year we have tried different formats. Just wondering, what have you found to be successful? Not so successful?
We always hold our Staff Development Day in November in the week or so before Thanksgiving and always on a Monday as that is our slowest day of the week.
Our first year we flew in Pat Wagner and she led us in a full day workshop on goal setting and teamwork. Last year we had a morning workshop with Marie Radford on Dealing with Problematic People and in the afternoon we did break out sessions led by staff members (catalog updates, readers advisory, 2.0 sites).
This year is still in the planning stages, but it is leaning towards being a day for us to work on our strategic plan.
Share you great ideas, speakers, etc for Staff Development Days.
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Re: Staff Development Days
5:36 PM EDT 9/15/07
as a reply to Bob Watson.
I am in Fayetteville NC and we have two SDD one in May and the other in the first week of December. We have ours on Fridays 9:00-12:00 and open the library late at 1:00. We have to attend 3 workshops with 4 to choose from. The one in May was great, we had an officer come in and discuss gangs with us. Since we are a public building, he wanted us to be aware of what to look for. He had plenty of gang paraphanelia from colors, the way they wore their ball caps, to the meaning of 3 safety pins on a shirt. Any of your local gang officers could come share this with you. It is very imformative and interesting.
Just an idea.
Cindy
Cumberland County Public Library
Fayetteville, NC
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Re: Staff Development Days
1:52 PM EDT 9/19/07
as a reply to Janie Hermann.
I wish we had one, but we've grown so large that we tend to use branch inservices to compensate for staff development days.
However, I'd reccomend considering like a mini-conference and have your own staff come up with ideas or needs. Have a couple techies offer a class on computer stuff, avid travelers talk about using the travel books for readers' advisory, and have some IT people come in and talk about why computer security is so important.
We've had an inititative to have our staff attend one diversity session a year, and typically this is accomplished during our inservices by having our own staff talk about experiences or cultures. We're fortunate enough to have staff from Ethiopia, India, Camaroon, China, Taiwan, Japan, Russia, and more. They develop a presentation that talks about the country itself, how daily life is, and how the library can help patron's from this country. The most important things people take away is how to interact with patrons from both verbally and non-verbally.
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Re: Staff Development Days
2:03 PM EDT 9/19/07
as a reply to Chris Carleton.
Thanks for the suggestions on different formats and programs that have been successful at Staff Development Days.
The Diversity sessions sound fantastic and I am sure they are something that can be replicated by library systems of all sizes and with minimal cost.
We are doing something a little different this year. We are having each department give an update to the rest of the library staff about their achievements and goals.
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Re: Staff Development Days
7:27 PM EST 2/26/08
as a reply to Janie Hermann.
This wins the prize for [url /forums/message.jspa?messageID=49015#49015]question of the week[/url]! It would be great to see a larger number of responses abou this important topic.
People will post their suggestions here in your topic.
Thanks for the great question!
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