HIGHER ED STAFFING: LIBRARIANS ROBERT MARTIN JANE OVERMOE LINDA THOMPSON Job Analysis, Recruitment & Selection Spring 2009

Job Analysis  Albitz (2002) finds that 81 percent of electronic resource librarians hired have three or less years of experience.  Feret and Marcinek (1999) discover that librarians need skills technology to both manage and deliver information to its end users.  Markey et al (2005) learn that librarians want to be team leaders of a technology group in the development of multimedia that provides instruction on library resources.

Recruitment  Anthony and Garbs (2005) discovered the difficulty in finding qualified library catalogers is increasing for academic libraries  Dewey and Keally (2008) study provides techniques to recruit librarians for the 21st century workplace. The authors used an in-depth case study of the University of Tennessee Diversity Libraries Residency Program along with programs from the Association for Research Libraries, the American Library Association, OCLC and IFLA.  Raschke (2003) finds that academic libraries need to migrate away from using the Traditional Risk-Averse Model and utilize the Innovative Risk-Accepting Model when recruiting and hiring librarians.

Selection  Wheeler, Johnson and Manion (2008) created a checklist of strategies to improve law librarian hiring  Howze (2008) finds that search committees are not significantly influenced by how a resume/cover letter looks (form) over the qualifications that an individual possesses for an entry-level tenure track position in librarianship (substance).  Lehner (1997) finds that the selection methods of academic libraries could be improved by utilizing some concepts used in human resource management and psychology literature on the selection of personnel.

THEMES Job Analysis HE Library Staffing Job Analysis Demonstrating technology skills to manage and deliver information (Feret and Marcinek, 1999) Developing collections and management skills (Johnson and Blakesly-Lindsay, 2006 Working in teams (Markey et al, 2005 and Baughman, 2008)

THEMES Recruitment HE Library Staffing Recruit- ment Difficulty finding qualified librarian cataloguers (Anthony and Garbs, 2005) Seeking applicants with doctorate (Lindquist and Gilman, 2007) Locating techniques for recruitment (Dewey and Keally, 2008) Finding new librarians have who 3 years experience or less (Albitz, 2002)

THEMES Selection HE Library Staffing Selection Requiring time commitment for hiring process (Raschke, 2003) Improving librarian hiring by creating check list of vital strategies (Wheeler, Johnson and Manion, 2008) Arguing for substance versus style : qualifications more important than cover letter (Howze, 2008) Utiliting a selection instrument in application process (Lehner, 1997)

Concluding Remarks  Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. — Groucho MARX