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Mentoring & managing students in the academic library / Michelle Reale.

By: Reale, Michelle.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : ALA Editions, 2013Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: xiii, 106 pages ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780838911747 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0838911749 (pbk. : alk. paper).Other title: Mentoring and managing students in the academic library.Subject(s): Student library assistants -- Management | Academic libraries -- Personnel managementDDC classification: 023/.3
Contents:
Mentoring students in the library setting -- Hiring students : not business as usual -- The nuts and bolts of hiring and training students -- Cultural and other considerations : many and varied -- Partnering with the educational process -- Engaging students : the library as learning lab -- How students see their place in the library, or, What is work, anyway? -- Teaching professional behavior, or, "Cruel to be kind!" -- Motivation is a muscle -- They will carry you far : emphasizing soft skills -- When things derail (as they sometimes will) -- When all is said and done -- What difference four years makes!, or, The inevitable disengagement.
Summary: The time it takes to train a student in all of the various aspects of technology and customer service must be weighed against the benefits of inspiring and influencing current patrons-- and creating a group of future library supporters and/or employees.
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Two Weeks Davenport Library Circulating Collection Print-Circulating 023.3 R229 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34284003488996

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mentoring students in the library setting -- Hiring students : not business as usual -- The nuts and bolts of hiring and training students -- Cultural and other considerations : many and varied -- Partnering with the educational process -- Engaging students : the library as learning lab -- How students see their place in the library, or, What is work, anyway? -- Teaching professional behavior, or, "Cruel to be kind!" -- Motivation is a muscle -- They will carry you far : emphasizing soft skills -- When things derail (as they sometimes will) -- When all is said and done -- What difference four years makes!, or, The inevitable disengagement.

The time it takes to train a student in all of the various aspects of technology and customer service must be weighed against the benefits of inspiring and influencing current patrons-- and creating a group of future library supporters and/or employees.

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