Creating a more flexible workforce for libraries–are leadership institutes the answer?

Technical Services Quarterly

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1-17

  Maurer, Margaret Beecher ^a   Coccaro, Cynthia ^b  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Brooklyn Branch   (United States)

Author keywords

Career progressions; Diverse workforce; Flexible workforce; Leadership institutes; Library Leadership Ohio; Mentoring; Networking; Recruitment; Retention; Snowbird Leadership Institute; Staff development; Staffing shortages

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010618491     PISSN: 07317131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J124v20n03_01     Document Type: Article

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