Preparation for our Statewide Staff Development Blue Print Planning Meeting – DUE on wiki by June 1, 2010
Meeting Date: June 15, 10am to 3pm, Location TBA
Background: During the LSTA strategic planning process (which included statewide meetings with various staff, including library
administrators and staff development coordinators), the need for a statewide blue print for staff development was identified. Therefore a
Goal 5 Program Activity in the current LSTA Strategic Plan, FY 2008-2012, states “Develop a statewide blueprint, timeframe 20092011”. It was thought that by planning together, we can identify trends, collaboration opportunities, and address gaps in what is being
offered throughout Maryland public libraries. A blue print planning meeting has been scheduled for June 15, 10am to 3pm, Location
TBA. A registration link will be sent to the mdstaffdev listserv, which includes staff in public libraries who support staff development
functions in their libraries. Representatives from SLRC, MLA, and LATI will also be present. Two training opportunities have been
offered to help everyone prepare for this meeting. The first was a workshop on how to do needs assessments provided by Gail Griffith.
The second was a workshop about staff development planning facilitated by Joanne Trepp. Resources from both of these trainings are
available on our staff development wiki in the Shared Files folders (under Needs Assessment and Staff Development Plans subfolders).
The hope is that you have been able to use this knowledge to gather and prepare for this meeting.
Final Product and Meeting Activities: The Blue Print document will be a table that will include: 1) Topic Trends 2) Who Currently
Offers 3) Gaps (what is needed that can’t be found) and 4) How The Gap Can Be Addressed. Your meeting pre-work documents will be
included as addendum. During the meeting, you will have the opportunity to meet in mixed, statewide groups and then again within
regions/locations. These small groups will map out parts of the blue print. Then as a large group, we will review and further modify.
Meeting Pre-Work: Please complete pages 2 to 4 of this document and post it to our Maryland Staff Development wiki in the
Blue Print folder under the subfolder Blue Print 09.01.10 by June 1, 2010. DLDS will print these so you can add to your Blue Print
notebooks that we can use to fuel discussion at our statewide Blue Print meeting on June 15, 10am to 3pm, Location TBA. Please name
your document with the name of your county. (For example, Carroll_blueprint_09.01.10.doc). Please maintain this file in .doc format.
Here’s how to upload it:
Wiki Upload Instructions:
Go to http://wiki.carr.org
Click on Sign In (on right sidebar) to login – User and Password was provided in the email that was sent with this document
Click on MarylandStaffDevelopment wiki (on left sidebar)
Click on SharedFilesForMarylandStaffDevelopment (on right sidebar, towards bottom)
Double-click on Blue Print folder to open it
Double-click on the Blue Print 09.01.10 folder to open it
Upload your file by double-clicking on Upload Document (on right) and browsing for your file and uploading
Click on Exit (top right)
Sign Out – please don’t forget to do this (on right sidebar)
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Questions, Ideas or Concerns? Please contact Nini Beegan, DLDS, nbeegan@carr.org, 443-340-7853.
Thank you for your support of this important initiative.
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Library Organization: Worcester County Library
During September 2010 to September 2012:
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What are you offering?
What would you like to see offered that you can’t find?
Ideas/comments about how we can share together
Note: It is understandable that some of you will not know enough about your budget yet to fully commit to a plan. Also, a two year
timeframe is a long time for staff development planning. Please do you best to share your plans. There is a comment area provided
below the table where you can share more detail and any questions/thoughts/concerns.
Part I: Here’s what we’re offering:
Please complete the table below. It should include any initiatives you plan to use to support staff development in your system. You can
add and delete rows as necessary. Please see page 5 for examples.
PRIORITY
TOPIC
1
Customer Service
2
Reference,
Electronic Databases,
Roving Reference
Readers’ Advisory
3
Transliteracy
Information Literacy
Digital Literacy
SPECIFICS
AUDIENCE
DELIVERY
METHOD/
PRODUCT
DATE/
TIMELINE
Refresh & rejuvenate
our customer-centered
focus.
Priorities: circulation &
reference service
All staff
review procedures,
peer coaching,
webinars,
in person training
Sept 2010 – May 2011
ESRL,
Database vendors
*
SLRC
Fall 2010 –
Winter 2011
branch library staff,
youth liaisons,
designated support staff
Ideas presented at
2010 MLA Conference
Info Lit Mashup
How public libraries
can support
21st century learners
youth services,
youth liaisons,
managers,
assistant managers,
designated support staff
*
blended learning:
online + in person
? Ask UMES ?
October 11, 2010 @
Worcester – Ocean City
January 2011 –
Oct 2011
Collaborate with
ESRL Staff Dev,
others
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Worcester
Priority 3
continued
4
5
6
Technology:
Mobile Devices
Help more staff to become
more familiar with new
technology devices
Supporting
Supervisors
Supporting
Youth Services,
Youth Liaisons
Interpersonal
communication,
Team Building,
Performance Evaluation,
Leadership
Early Literacy,
Preschool programming
resources
Next Wave:
Leadership
Leading From Any Position
assigned projects
Next Wave: Speakers
Next Wave:
Orientation &
Staff Swap
7
Future Trends
Preparing for Change
orientation
opportunities to
work in different branches;
Eastern Shore
demographics,
technology,
COOP Plan
youth services,
youth liaisons,
managers,
assistant managers,
designated support staff
Managers,
Supervisors
youth services,
youth liaisons
Ask ESRL for help.
Opportunities for
hands on training
discussion, coaching,
self paced online learning,
webinars,
in person training
? ESRL, MLA ?
January 2011 –
January 2012
Sept 2010 – Nov 2011
Oct 2010 – Mar 2011
Ask ESRL, CLES,
MLA, SLRC
selected nominees,
selected staff
DLDS,
+ in-house coaching
Sept 2010 – May 2011
selected staff
? Wor-Wic CC ?
TBA
when hiring freeze
is lifted
in-house
TBA
selected staff
administration
managers,
supervisors,
designated staff,
TBA
Discuss with ESRL
Feb 2011 – Apr 2012
Lower Shore
Library Consortium
& peer training
Dec 2010 – May 2011
Library Board of
Trustees
8
Millennium ILS
Circulation &
Technical Services
circulation &
technical services staff
Comments: Info Lit Mashup presenter: Anne Driscoll, UMES, Princess Anne, MD would be an excellent resource person
for the Information Literacy/Digital Literacy topic. [ See page 3, priority 3 ]
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Part II: Here’s what we would like to see offered that we can’t find:
Please complete the table below. Please see page 6 for examples.
PRIORITY
TOPIC
SPECIFICS
AUDIENCE
PREFERRED
DELIVERY
METHOD
DATE/
TIMELINE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Comments:
Worcester will consider possible training options/local providers.
Worcester will collaborate with Eastern Shore Regional Library staff to provide training opportunities/training providers.
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Part III – Ideas and Comments
Please share any ideas/comments about how we can share opportunities together.
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Example of Part I - What We’re Offering
PRIORITY
1
TOPIC
Coaching (Ongoing)
SPECIFICS
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2
How to Help Staff be
More Enthusiastic &
Creative
3
Working with Different
Personalities
Effectively
4
Painless Public
Speaking
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5
Handling Delicate or
Borderline Issues –
Like Pattern of SL Use
that isn’t Abuse
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Keep it Fresh &
Meaningful
Skill-Building &
Maintaining
Peer Sharing
Generate more
“Spark” in the Day
Peer Sharing
“Creativity Camp”
Seminar
Job Swap
Skill Building
Updating Info
New Info
Peer Sharing
Practical Apps. of
Myers/Briggs
Skill-Build &
Maintain
To Speak at Staff
Meetings & in Front
of Outside Groups
Expert Opinion
Skill
Separating your own
issues from perf.
Issues.
AUDIENCE
DELIVERY
METHOD/
PRODUCT
DATE/
TIMELINE
All SUPS
Mentoring – Supervisors
do coaching
June 2010-July 2011
All SUPS
Blended – online (blog)
with in-person meetings
Sept 2010-Sept 2012
All Supervisors
All Staff
Online –SkillSoft
Sept 2010-August 2011
All Staff
In-person
Hired vendor
October 2009,
November 2011
All SUPS
In-person, library
staffperson (or workshop
at our Regional Library)
Not yet scheduled
Could be All Staff
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Example of Part II - What We Can’t Find
PRIORITY
TOPIC
1
How Not to Get Sued
2
Building the
Confidence of Staff
SPECIFICS
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3
Theory of Management
(OK with Day to Day)
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Documentation
Awareness
Updated/New
Knowledge
Expert Opinion
How to Encourage
People to Grow
Culture Change &
Risk-Taking
New Info
Updating Knowledge
New Info
Academic Course
Peer Sharing
AUDIENCE
PREFERRED
DELIVERY
METHOD
DATE/
TIMELINE
All SUPS
No preference
December 1, 2010
All SUPS- 1st Line SUPS
In person, but can
consider online
2011
Mix of online and inperson
2012
Especially those who
supervise those with more
“quantifiable” jobs
Experienced Supervisors“Big Picture People”
Example of Part 3 Ideas/Comments
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Have an annual planning meeting in June and share some ideas with SLRC, MLA and Synchronous Trainers.
Do some futuring exercises during our next blue print meeting so we can think about future trends and products.
Submit one hot topic idea to MLA each year.
Create a place on the wiki to share comments about conferences.
Share one national speaker each year (example: Black Belt Librarian)
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