Building community: Synergy and empowerment through staff development and marketing in a small rural academic library

This paper presents two collaborative programs at a small academic library that leverage the insights, engagement, and interests of our most important asset: our staff. Two new library committees, the Staff Training Advisory Group and the Marketing Team, extended planning, accountability, and partne...

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Main Author: WILKES, Bethany Anne
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Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
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spelling sg-smu-ink.library_research-11662020-06-18T06:40:14Z Building community: Synergy and empowerment through staff development and marketing in a small rural academic library WILKES, Bethany Anne This paper presents two collaborative programs at a small academic library that leverage the insights, engagement, and interests of our most important asset: our staff. Two new library committees, the Staff Training Advisory Group and the Marketing Team, extended planning, accountability, and partnerships to paraprofessional staff members. The onset and associated activities of these two committees yielded not only direct results in terms of staff training programs and marketing initiatives, but also resulted in creating a more collaborative culture and shared purpose in our library. This paper examines how the overlap of these two committees created a convergence that fostered excitement about the library, interest in improving library roles, and furthering library initiatives. By working together, and with our university community, we developed solid, popular programs in addition to cultivating a more intentional, thoughtful, and inclusive approach to our work and, ultimately, to supporting our university community. 2016-01-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/library_research/161 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1166&context=library_research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection Library eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University empowerment paraprofessional staff staff development marketing committee university library Information Literacy Library and Information Science Organization Development
institution Singapore Management University
building SMU Libraries
continent Asia
country Singapore
Singapore
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topic empowerment
paraprofessional staff
staff development
marketing
committee
university library
Information Literacy
Library and Information Science
Organization Development
spellingShingle empowerment
paraprofessional staff
staff development
marketing
committee
university library
Information Literacy
Library and Information Science
Organization Development
WILKES, Bethany Anne
Building community: Synergy and empowerment through staff development and marketing in a small rural academic library
description This paper presents two collaborative programs at a small academic library that leverage the insights, engagement, and interests of our most important asset: our staff. Two new library committees, the Staff Training Advisory Group and the Marketing Team, extended planning, accountability, and partnerships to paraprofessional staff members. The onset and associated activities of these two committees yielded not only direct results in terms of staff training programs and marketing initiatives, but also resulted in creating a more collaborative culture and shared purpose in our library. This paper examines how the overlap of these two committees created a convergence that fostered excitement about the library, interest in improving library roles, and furthering library initiatives. By working together, and with our university community, we developed solid, popular programs in addition to cultivating a more intentional, thoughtful, and inclusive approach to our work and, ultimately, to supporting our university community.
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title Building community: Synergy and empowerment through staff development and marketing in a small rural academic library
title_short Building community: Synergy and empowerment through staff development and marketing in a small rural academic library
title_full Building community: Synergy and empowerment through staff development and marketing in a small rural academic library
title_fullStr Building community: Synergy and empowerment through staff development and marketing in a small rural academic library
title_full_unstemmed Building community: Synergy and empowerment through staff development and marketing in a small rural academic library
title_sort building community: synergy and empowerment through staff development and marketing in a small rural academic library
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2016
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/library_research/161
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1166&context=library_research
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