It’s useful to have a library ‘bible’ where you pull together all documents that can help you justify, detail, guide and promote your service.
This could include your staff manual or handbook, yearly reports, mission statement, policies and guides.
You might get some further ideas here.
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For a lone librarian, this one might seem impossible. Where am I going to get the time to create a staff manual?
Also, it will only be of benefit to other people, won’t it?
Well, no. Not really. It’s a good CPD exercise for a librarian (or any other professional) to create a staff manual. It gives [...]
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Let’s be honest; most of us find administration a huge bore. It’s one thing to have professional pride in our library and the way it’s set up, it’s quite another to garner that kind of enthusiasm for the day-to-day paperwork that comes flying at us.
Bore or not, it’s essential to keep good records, and [...]
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