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Unit 5: Library Staffing

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language, and fiction genre. This distributed approach, though not as common as a more
centralized approach with fewer selectors, has some advantages – Staff members feel
engaged, excited, and empowered by the responsibility and are often selecting materials
to meet the needs of the community they know well. The problems are lack of coordination,
lack of communication, and difficulty managing the overall budget, which is Jeff’s
responsibility. Some staff members spend little time on selection and collection
management activities, and some neglect other duties to focus much of their time on
selection. Jeff needs advice on how to control and regulate the distributed selection system.
Questions
1. Suggest measures that Jeff can employ to improve the coordination of selection.
Identify steps that can improve communication between the selectors and Jeff.
2. Suggest ways that fiscal accountability can be improved. If the current system with
many selectors should be changed, suggest a more effective system and explain why
it is so. List the advantages and disadvantages of the system proposed.

5.7 Summary

Staffing is the process, through which competent employees are selected, properly trained,
effectively developed, and suitably rewarded and their efforts harmoniously integrated
towards achieving the objectives of the business.
It is important to manage the staff; provided it is appropriately and with the upmost
respect. Without proper management the organisation will be left with unhappy staff
which leads to unhappy customers/ business.

The recruitment and selection is the major function of the human resource department and
recruitment process is the first step towards creating the competitive strength and the
strategic advantage for the organisations.

Recruitment process involves a systematic procedure from sourcing the candidates to
arranging and conducting the interviews and requires many resources and time.

Recruitment is the activity that links the employers and the job seekers. A process of
finding and attracting capable applicants for employment.

An internal recruitment strategy is characterized by promoting employees from within
an organization to fill upcoming positions.

An external recruitment strategy is one which a human resources department will
systematically search the employee pool outside its own employees to fill positions.

There are wide varieties of jobs to be done in a library, and all are important. Whether it’s
putting the books on the shelves, paying bills, answering questions, hiring staff, or preparing
a story time, they all must be done to keep the library running.
5.8 Keywords

Anticipated Needs: Anticipated needs are those movements in personnel, which an organization
can predict by studying trends in internal and external environment.

Body shopping: Body shopping is the practice of consultancy firms recruiting information
technology workers in order to contract their services out on short-term basis.

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