[Scla-list] FW: Library Worklife VOL 6 NO 11 has something for you!

Wed Nov 11 13:48:45 MST 2009

Here is the most recent newsletter from the American Library
Association-Allied Professional Association.

Tom

From: Jenifer Grady [mailto:jgrady at ala.org] 
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Subject: Library Worklife VOL 6 NO 11 has something for you!

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Volume 6, No. 11 * November 2009 

ISSN: 1550-3534

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ALA-APA News   Career Advancement   Certification   HR Practice
Recruitment   Salaries   Spotlight   Statistics   Support Staff
Work/Life

Spotlight

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Supervision Without Micromanagement

By Pat Wagner

What is the difference between constructive criticism and being a
control freak? When and how is it appropriate to provide feedback and
make suggestions? Listed below are three examples of micromanagement:

*	The circulation supervisor requires shelvers to place books on
the book cart in one specific order, even though only one shelver will
be using each cart.
*	The administrator demands that branch managers produce lengthy,
daily, reports about, well, everything.
*	The library trustee decides which pencils the director buys.
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ALA-APA News 

Library looks at $1 million in cuts

By Joyce Chen, The News Tribune (Tacoma, Washington): November 9, 2009

To offset a $1 million budget cut, the Pierce County Library System
plans to eliminate lay off 25 employees and reduce the responsibilities
and pay of nearly 40 more. If the budget is cut by another $.5 million,
the Board will reduce its staffing budget even further. MORE
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Libraries Feel Budget Bite; Hours, Staff Cut; Lines Grow Longer

By Bernard Harris, Intelligencer Journal/New Era (Lancaster,
Pennsylvania): November 6, 2009

A 20 percent cut in state funding has led the Lancaster Public Library
to eliminate ten positions. MORE
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Library project gets push

By John Appleton, The Republican (Springfield, Massachusetts): November
5, 2009

In the face of potential layoffs and certain budget cuts, the head of
the Clapp Memorial Library continues to support library expansion. But
some in the Belchertown Finance Committee argue that the expansion is
unsustainable in the current economic climate. MORE
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Career Advancement

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The Fixer-Upper

By Kelly Sattler 

My employer, a community college, requires students in many programs to
complete an internship. For the price of college credits, the student
gains knowledge and experience while I gain 160-200 hours of free labor
towards maintaining a university's website. My selection of interns has
been limited to one candidate per summer. If I had to pay the student
for her work, our most recent candidate would not have been hired. MORE
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Call For Certification, Publishing, Fundraising, and Better Salaries
Committee Volunteers

American Library Association-Allied Professional Association (ALA-APA)
President-elect Roberta Stevens is seeking applications and nominations
for appointments to 2010-2011 ALA Allied Professional Association
committees. Appointments take effect at the conclusion of the 2010
Annual Conference. MORE
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Certification 

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Seventeen Students Complete First Course in the Library Support Staff
Certification Program

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Seventeen students completed SLOL's first LSSC course

The Library Support Staff Certification project celebrates the
completion of its first course, Supervision and Management, offered by
the State Library of Louisiana (SLOL). 

Instructor and administrator Michael Golrick was pleased by the "level
of enthusiasm and interest" demonstrated by the seventeen students who
completed the course. "We thought we would have to do a great deal of
marketing in order to get people interested in both certification and in
the course," says Golrick, who also serves as SLOL's Head of Reference
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HR Practice 

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10 Attributes for Leaders during Times of Crisis

By Michael A. Germano, J.D., M.A., M.S.

The current economic downturn has resulted in one of the most
challenging job markets in more than half a century. Lay-offs, salary
freezes, furloughs and restrictions on hiring have combined to create a
climate of fear and anxiety for job seekers as well as those who remain
employed in virtually all industries and work environments. Furthermore,
company- and industry-wide budget cuts and resource reductions have
combined to radically change the way people work and feel about their
jobs. MORE
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Recruitment

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North Carolina State University Libraries Fellows, 2010-2012

The NCSU Libraries Fellows program offers a unique opportunity to a
select group of M.L.S. or M.I.S. graduates who will receive the degree
in November 2009 or later.  The NCSU Libraries is particularly well
known for its digital library programs, its technological advances, and
its commitment to defining the future of librarianship.  The NCSU
Libraries offers Fellows the opportunity for rapid professional growth
through assignment to an innovative project, combined with experience
and mentoring in a department.  Fellows are appointed to the rank of
librarian for a two-year term.  Search by position number C-60-0916.
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Salaries

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Pay Equity: It's More Than Loving Being a Librarian!

Lessons Learned from the North Carolina Library Association Pay Equity
Study

Prepared by Dr. Paula M. Singer, Dr. Beverley Gass and Ms. Laura
Francisco, PHR

During her term as president of NCLA, Pauletta Bracy organized a Task
Force on Pay Equity to investigate issues of pay equity for library
personnel in North Carolina. "Conventional wisdom," she stated, "tells
us that professions composed mainly of women have been compensated at a
lower level than professions composed mainly of men." MORE
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Statistics

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2008 LIS Grads Faced Longer Searches, Lower Salaries; Some Improvement
in Minority Compensation

Data from Library Journal's annual Placements and Salaries survey
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experiences-unsurprisingly-reflect 2008's economic slowdown, with fewer
full-time jobs available to new grads, and the first decrease in average
beginning salary in eighteen years. The survey attracted responses from
nearly 32 percent of the year's LIS graduates (2,098 respondents, of
approximately 6,500), and collected data on those graduates (race,
gender, alma mater) and their placement (library type, region, salary
and full- vs. part-time employment). MORE
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Support Staff

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MPLA 2010 Leadership Institute Application Online

The application for the Mountain Plains Library Association 2010
Leadership Institute is now online. This 7th MPLA Institute will be held
April 25-30 in Estes Park, Colorado. It will again be facilitated by
nationally known organizational development consultant Maureen Sullivan.
Applications must be postmarked November 30, 2009. MORE
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Work/Life

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Life's Work

By Jill Markgraf

As I prepare to send my firstborn off to college, I am reflecting on the
past 18 years as a parent and as a librarian. In assessing the progress
of my life's work from the vantage point of middle age and mid-career,
it is easy to identify the very real role parenthood played in deterring
or delaying professional goals. Decisions were made that necessarily
place family above work. But how often do we acknowledge the ways in
which being a parent has made us better librarians? The choice to become
a parent may preclude some professional opportunities along the way, but
it also develops valuable skills and perspectives that enrich one's
professional life and effectiveness. MORE
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Library workers urged to participate in survey of workplace wellness in
libraries

CHICAGO - The American Library Association-Allied Professional
Association (ALA-APA) and the Office for Human Resource Development and
Recruitment HRDR are encouraging library employees to participate in the
2009-2010 Library Workplace Wellness online survey
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opportunity for library employees to share information about the
availability of, and employee participation in, work/life options in
libraries around the nation. MORE
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