Ignite Session

Are We Successful if Everyone Stays? Creating and Evaluating a Career Development Program that Supports Your Employees and Your Library

ALA Unit/Subunit: ALA
Meeting Type: Ignite Session
Cost: Included with full conference registration.
Open/Closed: Open

Many large corporations realize that investing in the career development of employees pays off. Is your library ready to develop your next leaders, reduce recruitment and onboarding costs, support diversity and inclusion, or foster employee engagement? Decide which of these outcomes you truly seek so that you can then implement and evaluate a program that aligns with your library's goals. This presentation includes best practices and one mid-sized academic library's experience with a career development program for library employees.

Main contact(s)

• JK

  Jennifer Keach, MLS, M.Ed.

  Coordinator of Organizational Learning & Development
  James Madison University, Libraries & Educational Technologies