ARL has released Talent Management, SPEC Kit 344, which explores whether ARL member libraries are using talent management strategies in the recruitment, retention, and development of a workforce needed to support the transformation of academic and research libraries. This SPEC Kit investigates ARL libraries’ approaches to the following areas of talent management: talent strategy, recruitment and hiring, retention, employee engagement, job classification management, compensation management, performance assessment, competencies, professional development planning, and leadership and succession planning. This study includes information about all categories of library employees except student (undergraduate or graduate), temporary, seasonal, or contract employees.
This SPEC Kit includes examples of competency models, staff development plans, and performance assessment processes.
Ordering Information
SPEC Kit 344, Talent Management
Meredith A. Taylor and Elida Lee
November 2014 • 184 pp.
Online Edition
SPEC Kit 344
ISBN 1-59407-932-3 • $50 • Password or IP access
The SPEC Kit Collection provides online access to all titles published from 2006 to the present (SPEC Kit 292– ). Password access is $400. IP access is $300 ARL members/$400 all others.
Print Edition
ISBN 1-59407-931-5 • $40 ARL members/$50 all others
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2014 subscription, six issues (340–345), shipping included (additional postage may apply outside North America) • ISSN 0160-3582 • $225 ARL members/$300 all others.
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The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 125 research libraries in the US and Canada. ARL’s mission is to influence the changing environment of scholarly communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the diverse communities they serve. ARL pursues this mission by advancing the goals of its member research libraries, providing leadership in public and information policy to the scholarly and higher education communities, fostering the exchange of ideas and expertise, facilitating the emergence of new roles for research libraries, and shaping a future environment that leverages its interests with those of allied organizations. ARL is on the web at https://www.arl.org/.
