Boxford Town Library Technology Plan
2006-2011

Professional Development Strategy
 

All staff members are trained on the ILS, databases available to staff and the public and other software programs that are necessary to satisfactorily do their jobs. A “Technology Skills Assessment” was administered to the staff in 2005 to get a sense of where everyone was in their knowledge of hardware, software, internet searching techniques and some office applications. The results of the assessment have been used to develop a training/skills matrix for the staff.  Training sessions offered by the MVLC and at the Northeast Massachusetts Regional Library System (NMRLS) are used to increase knowledge of technology. Examples of NMRLS courses are: “More Than Basic Microsoft Word: Templates, Macros, and Mail Merge”, “Database Training: InfoTrac, eLibrary, Grolier, WorldCat, etc”, “The Digital Media Players on Your PC (or your library's public workstations!)”, “Digital Media on the Web: Music, Audiobooks!” and “The New Floppy Disks: USB drives, CDs, and DVDs”. Training courses offered on the Internet are also be used to increase staff skills.
Other training opportunities are used when available.

One of the most important training techniques employed by the library is to encourage staff to support each other as they learn new skills. This works particularly well as new database trainings are offered. Staff members support each other as they learn to search databases better in order to share this knowledge with the public.

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