A study of in-house training needs of Library Technicians working in the public libraries of the National Library Board

In recent years, the training provision for library technicians in relation to their expanding role has become a subject of interest among management. The aim of this dissertation is to study the in-house training practices provided for library technicians in the public libraries of the National Lib...

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Main Author: Faridah Ibrahim
Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
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Language:English
Published: 2010
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-424412019-12-10T12:32:07Z A study of in-house training needs of Library Technicians working in the public libraries of the National Library Board Faridah Ibrahim Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information Mark Hepworth DRNTU::Library and information science::Libraries::Personnel In recent years, the training provision for library technicians in relation to their expanding role has become a subject of interest among management. The aim of this dissertation is to study the in-house training practices provided for library technicians in the public libraries of the National Library Board. This is achieved via the cretion and implentation of questionnaire survey on in-house training practices. The scope of this survey consists of two areas namely induction training and task oriented skills training provided for Circulation, Reference and Information Technology (IT) services. Results of the survey show the role of the library technicians has expanded. However, the in-house training provided for Circulaton,Reference and IT services is insufficient thus resulting in library technicians emberking on self-training. There is also evidence of lack of systematic training for Induction. Master of Science (Information Studies) 2010-12-02T07:34:01Z 2010-12-02T07:34:01Z 1997 1997 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10356/42441 en Nanyang Technological University 109 p. application/pdf
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Faridah Ibrahim
A study of in-house training needs of Library Technicians working in the public libraries of the National Library Board
description In recent years, the training provision for library technicians in relation to their expanding role has become a subject of interest among management. The aim of this dissertation is to study the in-house training practices provided for library technicians in the public libraries of the National Library Board. This is achieved via the cretion and implentation of questionnaire survey on in-house training practices. The scope of this survey consists of two areas namely induction training and task oriented skills training provided for Circulation, Reference and Information Technology (IT) services. Results of the survey show the role of the library technicians has expanded. However, the in-house training provided for Circulaton,Reference and IT services is insufficient thus resulting in library technicians emberking on self-training. There is also evidence of lack of systematic training for Induction.
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title A study of in-house training needs of Library Technicians working in the public libraries of the National Library Board
title_short A study of in-house training needs of Library Technicians working in the public libraries of the National Library Board
title_full A study of in-house training needs of Library Technicians working in the public libraries of the National Library Board
title_fullStr A study of in-house training needs of Library Technicians working in the public libraries of the National Library Board
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