"""No library can render effective service without adequate
and competent personnel. The library's unique function of
serving as the one unbiased, non-partisan bureau of information
for all the people calls for personnel of the highest competence
and integrity. The selection of qualified staff members
as well as the organization and conditions under which
they work, are basic considerations in an institution dedicated
to public service. ""* In these words the new Public Library
Standards affirm the significance of the human element in library
service. While some similar statements of the importance
of the staff of a library may be found in the library literature,
until recent years little serious attention has been
given to the problems of staff training and development. Librarians,
in the main, have tended to devote the greater portion
of their time and energies to the selection and development
of their library collections, with little time for the post
professional or in-service training of their library staffs."
Publisher
Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Allerton Park Institute (4th : 1957)
ISSN
0536-4604
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
Permalink
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1459
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