The Library Personnel Office coordinated student employment, including the federal work-study program. The Library Personnel Office tracked and reported on this travel. Other office services to the Libraries included Web access to mailing labels, library directories, the travel handbook and other relevant information. In late October 1997, the Libraries' first Manager of Staff Training and Development was hired to provide or coordinate training that promotes staff versatility and long-range development, job performance, and greater organizational effectiveness. The first sessions on meeting management for staff, taught by Joan Stein of Carnegie-Mellon University, were in April 1998.
Scheduling is ongoing.
The office also inventoried campus resources in training and development and identified cooperative activities. A major effort during the year was assessing staff training and development needs, first by attending department, division, board and committee meetings to gather anecdotal evidence of departmental and staff training needs, then with a mid-June survey to all 290 staff members. In April, Photocopy Services moved to the Public Services Division, but it is included in the Planning and Administrative Services Division's annual report because it was part of Administrative Services most of the year. In general, Photocopy Services moved copiers around rather than buying much major new equipment. As patron services in Hornbake were reduced, copiers were moved from there to Engineering, Art and McKeldin.