Promote Staff Publications: Library PerformanceEvaluation at Santa Cruz Public Libraries
The program of Staff Picks is a new measurement to evaluate the annual performance of professionals at the Santa Cruz Public Libraries (SCPL). The research will examine from a historical viewpoint the reasons why the number of public librarians publications is far less than those of their academic counterparts in professional literature. Apparently, Publish or perish might be an effective metric for academia and academic librarians to survive in their professions. However it has certainly little bearing on public librarians who are neither required nor encouraged to publish. The research finds that to reverse such a historical trend, since 2008 SCPL has introduced a feature on its newly-designed website, i. e., Staff Picks, to publish book selections and reviews. It aims at requiring librarians to write and publish three book reviews per year, as part of their annual performance appraisal. As one of the contributors, the author has not only participated in the process, but also has conducted a series of investigations into the unprecedented success of the library program. Why can it shine and attract so many writers and readers? How can it grow so much faster and steadier than other library programs and activities advertised so prominently? What are the driving forces behind all of these phenomena? With the official launching of its newly designed homepage in February 2008, Santa Cruz Public Libraries(SCPL) introduced to the public a new feature entitled SCPL Staff Picks in the category of READERS LINK.
public library staff publication performance evaluation santa cruz united states of america
Hui-Lan H.Titangos
Santa Cruz Public Libraries, USA
国际会议
杭州
英文
256-266
2010-08-24（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）