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WMS Community Conversations: Circulation & Student Workers Event Summary
Thank you to everyone who participated in our first WMS Community Conversations event earlier this month! This new event format featured structured discussions around a predetermined topic: Circulation and Student Workers. Members of the WMS Communit...
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WMS Community Conversations: Do you have student employees staff the library on evenings & weekends?
Good afternoon from bright and sunny Oklahoma City! We are ready for our last question of the conversation.Do you have student employees staff the library on evenings and weekends without library staff? How does that work for your library?We had some...
WMS Community Conversations: How do you handle student employees who are often late/ call out, etc?
Good morning or as it may be, good afternoon! This is Kyle Winward, Senior Technical Services Librarian at Central College (Iowa) and member, WMS Community Leadership Committee. How do you handle student employees who are often late/ call out / don't...
WMS Community Conversations: How do you build community with your student assistants?
Good morning! This is Kay Johnson, Radford University Collection & Tech Services Head, and member, WMS Community Leadership Team. What are some ways you have tried to create an inclusive workplace and build community among your student employees? Wha...
WMS Community Conversations: How do you foster student employee retention?...recruitment?
This is Kyle Winward from Central College in Pella Iowa. How does your library foster student employee retention? How does your library foster student employee recruitment? Thank you!
Do you have favorite tools for student training that you can share?
This is Victoria Swinney again from Oklahoma City University. Our next question is about training tools.Do you have favorite tools for student training that you can share?We have a LibGuides page for our circulation staff https://libguides.okcu.edu/l...
WMS Community Conversations: Do you allow students to work on homework while working?
Hello again. I'm Kyle Winward, Senior Technical Services Librarian at Central College (Iowa). Do you allow students to work on homework while working? Why or why not? What are the parameters?
WMS Community Conversations: Digby
This is Kay Johnson, again, from Radford University. What devices do you and your student employees use for Digby? Are you using personal devices or a shared device? The staff here have used Digby somewhat on our own personal phones, but in my depart...
WMS Community Conversations:What responsibilities do student workers have in your library?
Good afternoon. This is Victoria Swinney, director of the Dulaney-Browne Library at Oklahoma City University. Our next question is: What responsibilities do student workers have in your library? Do you have specific student employees with specific t...
WMS Community Conversations: How do you train your new staff or student workers?
Good afternoon! I'm Kyle Winward, Senior Technical Services Librarian at Central College (Iowa), and also a member of the WMS Community Leadership Team.How do you train your new staff or student workers, and what approaches do you find the most effec...
WMS Community Conversations: Who trains your student workers?
Good morning! I'm Kay Johnson, Head of Collection and Technical Services at Radford University, and also a member of the WMS Community Leadership Team. Who trains the student workers in your library? How do you handle onboarding training versus ongoi...
WMS Community Conversations: What is your role in student worker training?
Good Morning! My name is Christine Forbes. I am a member of the WMS Community Leadership team. I am joining you from Shenandoah University in Winchester, VA , where I am the Access Services and Reference Librarian. Let’s dive into our first question!...
