The employee's portrait of Scientific Library of Tomsk State University

The portrait of library staff is closely connected with personnel policy, corporate culture and Performance Reviews processes (as any organization). The portrait sheds light on 'typical people character' in particular period of time. In Scientific Library of Tomsk State University (TSU) there was conducted a research, 'The Analysis of staff and professional development of Library's employees' in 2013-2015. The study has been received the portrait of a real employee of the Scientific Library. We were divided into two blocks the criteria that composed the portrait: General information about employees and employment training. General information. One important element of a portrait is the age of the specialist. Nowadays in the Scientific Library the most of the staff are at the age 41-55. The work experience is closely related to the age. At the present time the most of employees have professional experience from 10 to 30 years. The majority of specialists have a liberal education in the Library. The analysis of specialties, which employees have, shows a reduction the number of staff with professional library education. The last item in the searching of General information is an acquisition of related knowledge. There we compared the level of computer literacy, foreign languages' knowledge and proficiency. Professional training/staff development. In Scientific Library of TSU has formed a system of staff development. Annually at the beginning of the year the professional development plan is created and approved for all specialists' groups. The main trends of study are: Russian and foreign databases, science citation index, electronic resources etc. Nowadays conferences and internships are dominant in Russian and international levels, classes and consultations prevail in the Library. The employee's portrait of the Scientific Library of TSU. This is a woman, aged from 41 to 55 with work experience of 10-30 years who has a higher liberal education of TSU (librarian, historian, or philologist). This is an employee who is a confident user of Word and Excel having Internet searching skills and e-mail skills and also learned such programs as FineReader and Photoshop for document handling. This is a specialist with an elementary level of English language. This is an employee who tends to professional development, actively participates in conferences and professional training of Russian and international levels and shares his experience at regional and municipal conferences. This is an employee who receives certificates for professional training education.

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