Welcome Aboard: A Program for Improving the New Hire Experience for Academic Librarians

Authors

  • Mitch Winterman University of Nevada, Reno
  • Rosalind Bucy University of Nevada, Reno

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5860/llm.v33i4.7358

Keywords:

Management, Human Resources, Hiring, Onboarding, Orientation

Abstract

New hire orientation often consists of a checklist of tasks but does little to integrate a new employee to the organization. Previous research indicates that organizational socialization is key to successful onboarding, but few models exist for libraries to support this aspect of a new hire’s experience. This article shares an onboarding program adopted by one academic library and discusses the results of an assessment of the new program for newly hired librarians. Findings indicate that a structured onboarding program can improve organizational socialization during a librarian’s first months on the job.

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Published

2019-09-26

How to Cite

Winterman, M., & Bucy, R. (2019). Welcome Aboard: A Program for Improving the New Hire Experience for Academic Librarians. Library Leadership & Management, 33(4). https://doi.org/10.5860/llm.v33i4.7358

Issue

Vol. 33 No. 4 (2019)

Section

Peer Reviewed

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Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a  Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC-BY-NC 4.0) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.