Please join the LLAMA Practical and Applied Management Committee on Wednesday, August 21st @ 1pm Eastern Time/12pm Central Time for our latest event.

Practical Management or Practical Magic Webinar - Never-ending Vacancies: Managing Capacity and Demand for Service

How do we do it? How do we balance those never-ending vacancies while providing stellar library service? In this month's Practical Management, Deputy Director of Public Services for San José Public Library, Michelle Ornat, and Interim Associate Dean of Research and Scholarship for the University Library at San José State University, Emily Chan, share how their libraries respond to recruitment and retention issues, prioritize projects and services, and find opportunities in the challenges. 

Presenter Info:

Michelle Ornat is Deputy Director of Public Services for San José Public Library (SJPL). She oversees public programming and services for SJPL’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library, a joint venture with San José State University (SJSU), 24 branch locations, the MakerSpaceShip, the California Room, technical and access services, and the education and innovation divisions. Prior to this role, Michelle was Assistant Director of Chesapeake Library.

Emily K. Chan is Interim Associate Dean, Research and Scholarship for the University Library at San José State University (SJSU).  She oversees library programs that support campus instruction, teaching, research, and scholarship: information literacy, reference and research services, scholarly communications, collection development, and outreach.  Prior to this role, Emily was the Sciences Librarian and the Scholarly Communications Librarian at SJSU.  She earned Associate Librarian status in 2017. Prior to SJSU, Emily was the  Sciences Librarian at University of the Pacific.  

This is the next discussion in our Supervisory Conversation series, in which we strive to offer a synchronous forum for all interested participants--regardless of your membership status in ALA or your position in a library.

No registration required. Join in at the designated hour here: 

https://wichitastate.zoom.us/j/367088386

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All LLAMA PAM Practical Management or Practical Magic webinars are available on our YouTube channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK6NN5-TByLHOI9Z-23ZLeA

Sincerely,

Nyama

Nyama Y. Reed

Library Director

N.Reed@WFBLibrary.org

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