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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:57:00 CST
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- From: "Mary J. Klatt" <$M$LB42@LUCCPUA.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: staff training
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- At Loyola, we have NOTIS 5.0.1. The Med Cent Library is a small
- library also. We use have developed a training manual. We use a
- training (our test database) along with the manual, using "fake"
- patrons and IDs. We also have each new employ do every transaction
- that come to the circ desk with a experienced staffer standing along
- side. We also "test" each employ on all automated functions about
- one month after training begins. When we train part-time staff, we
- make them come in 4-5 days in a row (even if there normal schedule would
- be only 3 days a week, so that there is consistancy and the employee
- does not forget what he learned. When we first came up in 1989
- I found it very helpful to explain to the staff basic principles of
- NOTIS (how the database worked, what each type of record was and how
- it related to the other records). That seemed to help in the change to
- an automated system. Hope this helps.
-