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November 20, 2006
Bailer
Tom Roper in a comment under the heading "No Syrup" - below, suggested I should contact Bailer, which, he says, is an umbrella organisation for those who train librarians.
I looked on their website but couldn't find any email addresses for the contacts. Please could someone pass on this blog address to them. The debate about management training on that entry is, to me, completely fascinating. I hadn't realised that we don't train people specifically to manage public libraries- we only train "professional librarians" - who, it seems can then go to any kind of library (business, academic, medical etc)
No wonder my chiding about the lack of management skills just makes people upset. "How do you prepare the annual budget and address questions of productivity etc?" is, it seems, something that no one discusses in training. It explains so much.
Oh boy, do we have problems. And this is a public service larger than all book retailers and publishers combined. Gosh.
Posted by Tim Coates at November 20, 2006 5:55 PM