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Subject: [External] [OCLC-CAT] Call for book chapter proposals: Transforming technical services through training and development

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Call for Book Chapter Proposals

Title: Transforming technical services through training and development

Publisher: ALA Editions

Intended audience: technical services managers, coordinators of library staff training programs, and trainers

Proposal submission deadline: March 30, 2021

Description:

Technical services departments are increasingly expected to do more with less, whether because of shrinking budgets, staff turnover, a lack of visibility, or insufficient understanding of their work on the part of administrators. Today's next gen catalogs, changing cataloging rules, and diverse formats and delivery models demand that technical services professionals and paraprofessionals keep up with evolving best practices for the work they do. Finding a balance between meeting service demands and developing staff knowledge and skills is challenging, just as it is challenging to develop training programs and find experienced trainers and motivate staff to learn new skills. In this way, libraries are not unlike other organizations trying to stay effective, innovative, responsive and competitive in changing times. Like these organizations, libraries can adopt methods for developing a learning culture, incorporating formal and informal staff development into the everyday work of their employees, and using learning to continuously improve service delivery.

This book will examine training and development methods from instructional design, Lean management, Training Within Industry (TWI) and other models, and it will offer practical tools and case studies to help technical services managers to create training materials, organize and assess training programs and motivate staff to engage in learning.

This book is expected to be separated into two broad sections.

Section 1 Learning theory and its application to technical services training

Using theories of adult learning in technical services training
Applying instructional design best practices to technical services training
How to apply the Training Within Industry (TWI), Lean management, and other business and manufacturing approaches to training in technical services
How to create a training plan and track staff learning

Section 2 Case studies of technical services training projects or programs

Training and retraining of technical services staff due to system migration or availability of new technology
Training and retraining technical services staff due to organizational restructuring or changing focus of the department
Tools used to track the acquired skills and training progress
Assessment used to measure success of training programs in technical services
Managing staff expectations and staff attitude towards training and learning new skills.
Overcoming staff resistance to training and learning new skills

Proposals should be submitted through this online form - https://forms.gle/z94SU5hWeKHBX4AP6 and should include

Author name(s)
Institutional affiliation(s) and position title(s) and short, two sentence biography
Proposed chapter title
Submission description, i.e. application of theory, case study, survey, etc.
Summary of the proposed chapter section (250-500 words)

Important dates

Proposal submission deadline - March 30, 2021

Authors of selected proposals will be notified by April 30, 2021

Draft full chapters are expected by July 30, 2021

Editor feedback to authors by September 15, 2021

Author final revisions to chapters due November 15, 2021

Full chapter word counts will range from 2,500-4000 words.

Proposed chapters should be unique to this publication – no materials that were previously published or simultaneously submitted to another publication.

If you have any questions about the book or proposal submission process, feel free to contact Sofia Slutskaya at sofia.slutskaya@emory.edu or Marlee Givens marlee.givens@library.gatech.edu

Thank you for your interest

Sofia and Marlee

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Sofia Slutskaya

Head, Resource Description

Woodruff Library

Emory University

404.727.0123

sofia.slutskaya@emory.edu

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