Technology for Branch Managers: Awareness, Performance, Teaching

Ocean County Library Branch Managers Challenge

Goal:

All branch managers will progress from awareness of certain technological features and tasks, to performance of those features and tasks and finally to the level of competency sufficient to teach other staff and customers how to use the technologies.

Some of the proposed topics for this training include:

Digital camera

Wi-fi
Digital projector/laptop/DVD

PC Plus
Scanners

MS Office suite
Flash drives

Wikis

Blogs
Shortcuts for popular programs

Computer 101: terminology and basic file management

ListenNJ
Google: beyond the basics

Google docs
High Priority Databases

QandANJ

Activities:

At least once a month, a learning goal will be set on the blog, OCLmanages.blogspot.com. Depending on what is being taught, some months there will be self motivated learning, reading and practice while other months there will be a training given as part of the Branch Managers meeting or small group trainings. This is an opportunity to suit the training to the lesson and experimentation in how to train each technology is part of the effort. Chat and instant messaging could easily become part of the mix.
Instructors will primarily come from TR Adult -Informations Services and the Technology Department but aren’t necessarily limited to those sources.

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Duration:
The challenge begins October 10, 2008. The duration is indefinite. As new technologies develop and as expectations arise among customers and staff, this will be an ongoing effort.

Tracking:
Progress will be recorded on a Google docs spreadsheet shared with the Assistant Director, Chief Librarian for Branch Services, and the Supervising Librarians of Branch Services.

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Program manager: Coordinator of Information Services