Hiring Better:
Tools for Finding and Selecting Staff at All Levels
Part of the Library 2.0 Service, Safety, and Security / Essential Librarian Series with Emily Weak. and hosted by Dr. Steve Albrecht
OVERVIEW:
Whether you are hiring library workers for the first time or the 40th, this webinar will help you hire better. Presenter Emily Weak, founder of Hiring Librarians, draws on over a decade of her experience speaking to thousands of professionals about their perspectives on hiring – and being hired – in libraries and the greater LIS field.
This webinar will provide an overview of emerging (and a few established) hiring trends. Attendees will find options – small and large steps, adjustments to traditional practices, and whole new directions – they can take to improve their recruitment and selection of staff at all levels.
While she will touch on many trends, here are two key areas:
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is an area of burgeoning focus in LIS. For example, in 2021, in one of only four revisions since its creation in 1939, the ALA added a new DEI-focused principle to its Code of Ethics. DEI is a reflective process, and libraries that have already committed to incorporating DEI will benefit from this webinar’s discussion of practices and experiences. And in many libraries, hiring processes remain stagnant and have not caught up to this change. This webinar will provide a friendly, practical, and encouraging resource to assist in improving practices.
- The LIS field is also dealing with a post-pandemic-induced reckoning. Workers in all fields, and library workers in particular, are re-evaluating their commitment to jobs that previously seemed okay. Library workers are looking for new jobs, and they want jobs that treat them better, starting from their very first interaction: the hiring process. This webinar will explore how to meet the higher standards and expectations of today’s workforce.
Hiring Better benefits everyone; when libraries find better, more contented staff, and staff will find more fulfilling workplaces.
LEARNING AGENDA:
- An overview of library hiring trends. Stories, examples, and perspectives from other practitioners will allow participants to benchmark their own experiences.
- Hiring is often an isolated process. The norms of a single institution are often taken as norms for all institutions, and people are unable to see alternatives. Library leaders who hire will benefit from seeing where their organization is situated in the larger spectrum of possibilities.
- At the end of the session, participants will be able to list three practical, achievable steps their library organizations can take to improve their hiring processes.
This 60-minute overview session on is another in our “Essential Librarian Series,” designed to be shown to new staff and leaders and to provide a refresher for all who work in the library. The presentation slides will be available to all who participate.
DATE: Thursday, January 23rd, 2025, at 2:00 pm US - Eastern Time
COST:
- $99/person - includes any-time access to the recording and the presentation slides and receiving a participation certificate. To arrange group discounts (see below), to submit a purchase order, or for any registration difficulties or questions, email admin@library20.com.
- FREE for those on individual or group all-access passes for the Dr. Albrecht Safe Library Series (see below).
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As the founder of the long-running Hiring Librarians project, Emily has surveyed more than 2000 workers on both sides of the hiring table, in the wide field of Library and Information services. She has also worked with researchers and authors, curated crowd-sourced resources for interview preparation and resume/CV review, and even started a podcast. She is proud of her work as an Equity Advisor with the Pacific Library Partnership, in outreach and engagement at public libraries in Oakland, CA and Mountain View, CA, and being on the board of the California Library Association (2018-2021). She has written two book chapters and been published in Library Leadership & Management; Public Libraries Magazine; and Reference & User Services Quarterly, among other titles.
Prior to becoming a librarian, she was variously: a circus student, a cheesemonger, and a grocery store manager. She is online at www.EmilyWeak.com and www.HiringLibrarians.com.
Since 2000, Dr. Steve Albrecht has trained thousands of library employees in 28+ states, live and online, in service, safety, and security. His programs are fast, entertaining, and provide tools that can be put to use immediately in the library workspace with all types of patrons.
In 2015, the ALA published his book, Library Security: Better Communication, Safer Facilities. His new book, The Safe Library: Keeping Users, Staff, and Collections Secure, was just published by Rowman & Littlefield.
Steve holds a doctoral degree in Business Administration (D.B.A.), an M.A. in Security Management, a B.A. in English, and a B.S. in Psychology. He is board-certified in HR, security management, employee coaching, and threat assessment.
He has written 25 books on business, security, and leadership topics. He lives in Springfield, Missouri, with six dogs and two cats.
More on The Safe Library at thesafelibrary.com. Follow on X (Twitter) at @thesafelibrary and on YouTube @thesafelibrary. Dr. Albrecht's professional website is drstevealbrecht.com.
