Faculty Development for Advancement
The following ideas were discussed during a FEC Brown Bag Lunch regarding faculty training for advancement:
- The Libraries should support group Webinars. Several issues must first
be resolved.
— Communicating their availability.
— Financial support.
— Determining who should become the lead entity, the Libraries Human Resources section or the Staff Development Committee.
- Brown bag lunches are easy to organize, inexpensive, and often effective.
- Develop staff orientation within the Libraries. A program based upon the
effective Residency orientation could be a model.
- Supervisory training. Supervisors believed that the University’s
Human Resources training programs are far too general for more specific needs
in the Libraries. Most training programs concentrate on professional staff
program evaluations and other issues affecting professional staff. However,
supervising faculty, who work independently, becomes difficult. A supervisor
asked how one effectively supervises faculty.
- Develop mentoring programs. A former Resident who worked through a mentor
before acquiring a faculty position still finds meeting regularly with the
mentor very helpful.
- Develop cross Unit training opportunities.
- Promote continuous training opportunities throughout people’s careers.
- Become more aware of special skills among staff and encourage sharing this
knowledge with colleagues.
- Better publicize positions staff hold on editorial boards and in professional
groups enabling others to take advantage of these in-roads.
- Promote awards and fellowships more effectively.
- Better articulate requirements for promotion to full librarian among ourselves
and push for more promotions.
- Promote grant writing training.
- Promote publishing opportunities.
- Promote activities and opportunities available in professional associations
more effectively. Do not limit this to ALA and SLA, but become aware of and
publicize opportunities in the many smaller groups as well.
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