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Campus HR offers many courses appropriate for professional development.
Campus training offerings in a wide range of managerial and technical skills. The leadership programs indicated above
are programs run by the university.
Department/unit heads allocated training budgets based on number of staff. Professional Expense Reimbursement for
academic staff ($1500 annually).
Individual training funds apply to faculty and academic professional positions. Although the library doesn’t have an
internal leadership development program, the library sends employees to outside programs and institutes. The library
also offers library-wide training on a periodic basis. The university training and organizational development offers
training that all employees can attend as well.
Professional development speaker series on hot topics
The university often offers subsidized registration for employees for conferences it creates and markets to a wide
audience, e.g., an annual conference for pre-tenure women.
33. Please indicate which positions within your library have which type of customized development
plans. Check all that apply. N=35
Plan Librarians Other
professional
staff
Department/
unit
managers
Library
support
staff
Administrative
management
Library
executive
Other
staff
category
N
Training plans (used
to help employees
learn a new task, job,
technology, process etc.)
22 23 20 25 10 8 3 28
Leadership development
plans (used when
preparing individuals for
future leadership roles
or to improve leadership
skills in current job)
20 14 17 4 10 9 0 21
Competency-based
development plans (used
when individuals identify
competencies they would
like or need to develop)
13 14 12 15 11 7 3 18
Career/professional
development plans (used
to help individuals plan
for a future career move)
14 11 11 8 8 5 1 16
Other type of plan 1 2 2 1 2 0 0 2
Total Responses 29 29 28 29 22 15 4 35
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