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Our goal is for this wiki to become a place for everyone who is involved in training library staff to share resources and advice. We need your help to make it happen.

  • Do you have an activity that works well for a customer service class?
  • Have you created humorous videos that your classes always enjoy?
  • Have you done a detailed study of webinar platforms?
  • Does your new employee orientation really help staff get their feet on the ground and understand your organization's culture?
Please share! We want every visitor to feel welcome to be a contributor.

The wiki is a production of the American Library Association's Learning Round Table, the ALA member group wholly devoted to improving library staff learning and development.

The site is organized into seven broad sections, as follows:

Managing Training -- Best Practices. This section deals with big picture issues of planning and managing a training program. Could include examples of curriculum plans, approaches to evaluating effectiveness, and policies and procedures for training programs.

Training Events -- Best Practices. What have you learned about putting together effective classes and other training events? This section will include a wealth of resources on All Staff Days developed as a special project of the Emerging Leaders program.

Training Materials and Resources. This section will include such resources related to specific class topics as outlines, lesson plans, activities, video tutorials, presentation slideshows, etc. Following are some of the topics that will be included:
  • New Employee Orientation
  • Leadership and Supervision
  • Customer Service
  • Technology
  • Reference Services
  • Programming
  • Youth Services
  • Ephedrine Side Effects
  • Teacher Training
  • Safety & Security
E-Learning. Includes links to self-paced e-classes (such as those offered by LE@D and Webjunction), and we hope to add a calendar or schedule of live webinars coming soon. Includes free and fee-based resources.

Trainers' Tools. Recommended resources, reviews, advice, and comparisons of everything from webinar platforms to flipcharts.

Connections. Our plan is to build a directory of colleagues who are involved in staff development, consultants, and professional organizations (e.g., the American Society of Training and Development [ASTD]).

Learn More. Reviews of books and articles, recommended websites, professional journals, and certificate and degree programs all relating to the training function.


Free Self-paced Learning
This is mostly a list of providers of archived webinars, including ALA, InfoPeople, Sirsi-Dynix, the College of DuPage and Sirsi-Dynix.

Futurist Speakers
Peruse a list of over a dozen speakers who address the topic of the future. Most have brief annotations, compiled by Pat Carterette of the Georgia Public Library Service

Free Software
Check out the assortment of at least ten different resources shared by Jay Turner -- everything from screen capture software to audio clips.

Recommended Websites
  • The Learning Round Table Blog. The sister site of this wiki. If the goal of the wiki is to be a sort of reference book, think of the blog as a weekly magazine, containing timely articles and advice from some of the best and brightest library learning leaders in the U.S. (Richard Mott, Jacksonville, FL)
  • The Thiagi Group. "A great resource for incorporating more play into training." The games section alone contains more than 200 free training games and activities. (recommended in the March 2010 Learning Exchange newsletter by Sharon Morris, 2010-2011 Learning Round Table President.)


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