Manage staff development

With the ever-changing nature of our work, library staff need fresh and innovative training opportunities to say current and to continue to meet the needs of our patrons. Managing staff training involves assessment of training needs, planning and evaluating staff development, and keeping on top of all the learning methods and formats available. Whether conducting training face-to-face or online, a blend of both or augmented with social media tools, managing staff learning can be the basis for a transformative and accessible learning organization for all.
Self-paced courses and webinar recordings on this topic are freely available in the WebJunction Course Catalog.
Most Recently Added
Learning on the Go-Go-Go!
Publish Date: News / 11 September 2018
Slides and Learner Guide for Learning on the Go-Go-Go!, a session by Jennifer Peterson, presented at the 2018 Association for Rural and Small Libraries in Springfield, Illinois.
Bridging the Digital Divide by Building Digital Literacy Skills
Publish Date: News / 15 June 2018
Developing digital literacy skills for both patrons and staff has been part of the services of the Willoughby-Eastlake Public Library (OH) for some time. When Collections & Virtual Services Manager, Melanie Wilson, was invited to participate in a...
More Than #MotivationMonday: Motivating Your Team Any Day of the Week
Publish Date: Webinar / 17 August 2017
This webinar explores factors that influence motivation at work and reviews strategies for keeping teams motivated and productive.
Best Practices - Web Conferencing Participants
Publish Date: Document / 15 May 2017
This collection of best practices for web conferencing participants was originally published in 2010 by Cindi Hickey and was updated in May 2017 by WebJunction staff.
The WebJunction Experience: Find Your Learning Flow
Publish Date: Webinar / 3 November 2016
Join us for this webinar to explore all the different ways to experience learning at WebJunction to help you meet your learning goals.
Build Your Learning Culture: The Whole Organization Approach
Publish Date: Webinar / 24 August 2016
In this webinar, explore how your library can create organizational learning structures that can help staff, in any position, embrace learning, as essential to their job.
WebJunction Experience: Blended Learning Strengthens Library Practice
Publish Date: News / 22 August 2016
How would you complete this sentence? "I like my online learning to be ____." WebJunction users consistently use adjectives like "relevant," "high-quality," and "convenient" to describe their online learning pr...
WebJunction Experience: Self-paced Courses
Publish Date: News / 15 August 2016
As much as libraries are about information, they are just as much about people. Interacting with lots and lots of people. Is it any surprise that the two most-viewed self-paced courses in the WebJunction Course Catalog are Dealing with Angry Patrons ...
WebJunction Experience: Webinars
Publish Date: News / 8 August 2016
If you are new to or unfamiliar with WebJunction webinars, you may not know that we began regularly hosting webinars ten years ago. Why webinars? Library staff frequently cited that critical barriers to pursuing learning were lack of time or funds to...
Learning Together: Penfield Public Library Team and WebJunction Webinars
Publish Date: News / 8 August 2016
In the years we've been hosting webinars, we've seen a wonderful evolution toward library teams sharing in what they're learning, especially when they are able to gather to view and discuss the webinar together. Some teams like to view the recording ...