"Neuro-linguistic programming? In my library?" <br><br>Many information and library practitioners are engaged in training activities in their daily work, and both need and want to know about new approaches to learning. In <i>Training Skills for Library Staff</i>, veteran trainer Barbara Allan takes the mystery out of the potentially unfamiliar and the mindless from the tried and true. <br><br>Beginning with a compelling discussion of learning styles and how to apply them, Allan demonstrates best practice skills for designing, delivering, and assessing effective training programs, as both single events and a continuous professional development program. Ideas, activities and techniques abound, as well as listings of contacts and sources of information. <br> <br>First published in the UK in 2000, <i>Training Skills for Library Staff</i> has been revised and updated for a North American audience by management expert Barbara Moran. Now, as then, it offers a wealth of information upon which you will draw many times over.
