Training Student Library Assistants

With this effective training programme, the library's student assistants will be more productive. It speaks to the specific concerns of librarians who hire students by answering such questions as: how do students learn best? how do you deal with the varying maturity levels and abilities of student assistants? how can you motivate students to do a better job? Organized in five chapters, the manual presents an overview of past works still valid today and combines them with management principles, discusses the applicability of learning theory to training principles, outlines preparation for training so that trainers will have a basis from which to work, presents a generic training model, and outlines specific library areas and suggests practical training applications for each.

• Publisher: American Library Association
• ISBN: 9780838905616
• Number of pages: 140