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Steve Albrecht - Safe Library, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Safe Library

Keeping Users, Staff, and Collections Secure

Av Steve Albrecht

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Beskrivning
For over 22 years, Steve Albrecht has trained thousands of library employees around the country on the dos and don’ts of handling challenging, entitled, eccentric, demanding, harassing, or even threatening patrons. His articles, blogs, podcasts, and keynote speeches have helped empower equip library employees at all levels to be more empowered, assertive, and confident when helping users who are struggling with homelessness, mental health issues, trauma backgrounds, and substance use problems. The Safe Library offers practical and realistic tools which will make every library facility a better, safer place to work. Readers will learn:de-escalation skills,communication toolssafe workplace habits security measurespersonal protection methods, and,how to activate one’s best customer service skills, even under stress. This book provides advice and support to help library employees best deal with sexually harassing patrons, unruly groups of students, thieves, Internet hogs, and others who can disrupt the safe library environment. It offers best practices for helping patrons experiencing homelessness to follow library rules while staff treat them with dignity and respect; helping staff stay motivated to deal with the same challenging patrons and their accompanying demands, day after day; protecting smaller or rural library facilities and keeping one-room, one-librarian facilities safe; working more effectively with onsite security guards and responding law enforcement officers, to create more consistent responses; and using daily, monthly, quarterly, and yearly facility security checklists to regularly assess the state of your buildings and IT systems.This book is for all levels of library employees, from longtime staffers to part-timers and even library volunteers. It will especially appeal to library directors, managers, and supervisors who have to manage different types of staffs and patrons in different types of facilities, ranging from downtown locations to rural library buildings. Here's the book that answers the most common (and even uncommon) user behavior and customer service questions, or as many attendees have said after experiencing Steve’s dynamic training programs, “Here’s what they don’t teach you in library school.”
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2023-02-25
  • Mått: 160 x 236 x 18 mm
  • Vikt: 508 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 196
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • ISBN: 9781538169599
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Since 2000, Steve Albrecht has trained thousands of library employees in 25+ states, live and online, in service, safety, and security. His programs are fast, entertaining, and provide tools that can use immediately in the library workspace with all types of patrons. He is a frequent keynote speaker at regional and national library conferences, covering safety and security topics. Each month, he creates webinars, blogs, and podcasts for Library 2.0, a training and information site for over 65,000 library professionals. Steve has written or been interviewed for several national and international library publications.Steve holds a doctoral degree in Business Administration (D.B.A.), an M.A. in Security Management, a B.A. in English, and a B.S. in Psychology. He is board-certified in HR, security management, employee coaching, and threat management.In 1994, Steve co-wrote Ticking Bombs, one of the first business books on workplace violence prevention. It was featured on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.”

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Security and safety are critical issues everywhere, libraries included. School, public, and academic libraries all need to address security and safety needs, which may differ from library to library. Such concerns were not an issue until about 25 years ago, so schools of library and information science did not cover them. Albrecht is a specialist in this area, and he packs this book with all kinds of information librarians and staff need to know when dealing with emergencies and safety/security issues. Chapters cover such topics as homeless library users, working with those with mental challenges, rural safety, and dealing with an armed intruder. The scenarios the author presents will make for productive discussions. Excellent appendixes provide information about access, parking lot safety, and security tools. This book will be an excellent resource for information sciences classes, for local or national organization professional development, or for individual use on an as-needed basis. Although much of the book focuses on public libraries, the book is applicable to all libraries. Essential. Graduate students, researchers, faculty, and professionals.

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