Pub Date : 2023-09-27DOI: 10.21061/valib.v67i1.657
Elizabeth Price
While serving on a search committee at my institution, I started thinking about what I wish someone had told me when I was trying to break into the field of academic librarianship. And at the top of the list is how to write a cover letter that will increase your chance of getting hired. This article contains a list of nine tips about how the hiring process works at one public university in Virginia. Readers will learn how to interpret the qualifications list in a job ad, how to link their experiences to those qualifications, and which rules they can ignore (like one-page cover letters). An example cover letter is included.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-23DOI: 10.21061/valib.v67i1.641
Clenise Platt
A strategic focus and goal for many libraries is to provide welcoming environments for each of their customers. Just as libraries focus strategically on welcoming their customers, it is important that they focus on the goal of providing welcoming environments for each of their employees. One of the first opportunities to “lay out the welcome mat” for staff is with the organization’s orientation. The employee orientation is a one-time event that welcomes new employees and provides a general overview of the organization. The employee onboarding process is a series of events and trainings that allows the new hires to acquire the knowledge, skills, tools and resources to be successful employees in the organization. The orientation is an important part of the overall onboarding process. Research and advisory services firm Brandon Hall Group found that organizations with a strong onboarding process improve new hire retention by 82 percent and new hire productivity by over 70 percent.1 According to Dewar, a scarcity of talent and high turnover are two of the biggest challenges facing organizations today.2 That is why it is important to ensure that organizations design and implement an efficient and effective onboarding process that includes a strong orientation. Thriving and proficient orientation programs are always evolving to accommodate the growth of the organization and the changing times. The way two Virginia libraries redesigned their orientation programs to better serve their new hires and enhance their onboarding process are highlighted in this article. Additionally, strategies to develop a library orientation event that fosters an inclusive environment and supports the mission and work of the library and promotes employee productivity, engagement and satisfaction are presented.
许多图书馆的战略重点和目标是为每位客户提供温馨的环境。正如图书馆的战略重点是欢迎他们的顾客一样，重要的是他们要关注为每一位员工提供温馨的环境。为员工“铺好欢迎垫”的第一个机会是组织的入职培训。员工入职培训是一个一次性的活动，欢迎新员工，并提供组织的总体概况。员工入职过程是一系列的活动和培训，使新员工获得知识、技能、工具和资源，成为组织中成功的员工。入职培训是整个入职过程的重要组成部分。研究和咨询服务公司Brandon Hall Group发现，拥有强大入职流程的组织可以将新员工的保留率提高82%，新员工的工作效率提高70%以上根据杜瓦的说法，人才短缺和高流动率是当今组织面临的两个最大挑战这就是为什么确保组织设计和实施一个高效和有效的入职过程是很重要的，这个过程包括一个强有力的导向。蓬勃发展和熟练的培训项目总是在不断发展，以适应组织的发展和时代的变化。本文重点介绍了弗吉尼亚的两家图书馆如何重新设计他们的入职培训计划，以更好地服务他们的新员工，并加强他们的入职流程。此外，还提出了开发图书馆迎新活动的策略，以促进包容的环境，支持图书馆的使命和工作，提高员工的工作效率、参与度和满意度。
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.21061/valib.v66i1.649
Julia Feerrar, T.G.F. Berning, Andrea M. Castillo, Emily Correa, Stephen Leist, Bettina Peacemaker, E. Weir
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.21061/valib.v67i1.651
Keith Weimer
The early 2020s saw a wave of demands for books to be removed from school and public libraries in Virginia and throughout the United States. A disproportionately high percentage of challenges were aimed at books written by LGBTQ+ authors and authors of color. Involvement by public officials was one of the most striking features of the challenges—especially when Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin chose to make “parental control” of children’s education a central feature of his 2021 campaign. However, while these events represent a new and troubling phase in the long history of struggles for control of reading material, race and sexuality have been recurring themes in book censorship throughout Virginia history in periods of backlash to social change. This article surveys episodes in the history of book censorship in Virginia from 1960-present set against the longer arc of Virginia and US history. Books provide exposure to knowledge as well as its representation, ensuring that they will be a focus of cultural and political struggles. Demands to restrict library materials in order to protect children tend to focus on literature giving voice to marginalized communities, and can be followed by demands to restrict adults’ reading material as well.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.21061/valib.v66i1.648
Megan L. Zimmerman
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.21061/valib.v67i1.660
Christine E. Woods
This study aimed to determine the number of hours and percentage of time spent working remotely and online by academic librarians in Virginia and the perceived advantages and disadvantages of this type of work. Returning to work following the COVID-19 pandemic has sometimes been flexible, with some librarians continuing to work remotely part-time. Due to technological advances, librarians are working more in an online environment allowing them to get their work done no matter where they are located. In September and October 2022, 672 invitations to participate in the quantitative study were sent to publicly available email addresses at 75 Virginia colleges and universities, including two-year, four-year, public, private, profit, and not-for-profit. A total of 146 responses were collected, with 67% of librarians reporting that they work remotely each week. The average number of days working remotely per week was 1.9. The advantages of working at library locations were related to in-person interactions with library faculty and staff, school faculty, and students. More advantages were reported for working remotely. The highest reported advantages were saving time and money on transportation and being more environmentally friendly. Transportation issues, such as gas money, traffic, parking, and time driving, were reported as disadvantages to working at library locations by 23% of participants, the highest percentage of responses to any of the advantages or other disadvantages. Lack of connections with library faculty and staff was the highest reported disadvantage of working remotely. Although focused on academic librarians in Virginia, this study reflects the continuance of online and remote work nationwide.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.21061/valib.v66i1.635
Olivia Hasan
{"title":"Experiencing Teranga: A Library Fellowship in Dakar, Senegal, West Africa","authors":"Olivia Hasan","doi":"10.21061/valib.v66i1.635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21061/valib.v66i1.635","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29991,"journal":{"name":"Virginia Libraries","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67764190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.21061/valib.v66i1.642
J. Minor
{"title":"Libby App Curation for the Virginia Librarian","authors":"J. Minor","doi":"10.21061/valib.v66i1.642","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21061/valib.v66i1.642","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29991,"journal":{"name":"Virginia Libraries","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67764210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.21061/valib.v66i1.645
K. Vaughan
{"title":"Recovery and Revival: A Letter to VLA’s Membership","authors":"K. Vaughan","doi":"10.21061/valib.v66i1.645","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21061/valib.v66i1.645","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29991,"journal":{"name":"Virginia Libraries","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67764275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-09DOI: 10.21061/valib.v65i1.626
Julia Feerrar, T.G.F. Berning, Emily Correa, Barbara A. Ferrara, Stephen Leist, E. White, Lynda Wright
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