Customer Skills for Library Staff - Techniques that Yield Results

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Information seekers interact daily with library staff to meet their information needs. Do you have the necessary customer skills it takes to engage in successful interactions with your patrons? This course helps reference staff identify necessary skill sets needed for any reference interaction whether it is face to face, virtual or on the telephone. Additionally, you will learn how to recognize common barriers to productive reference interactions, develop techniques to overcome them and discover how to display exemplar service to anyone visiting your library, face-to face or virtually.

Learning Objectives: 

  • Identify the skills utilized in providing service to your patrons
  • Recognize how to demonstrate customer service skills to your patrons
  • Define barriers to patron interactions with librarians and staff
  • Employ examples to reinforce soft customer skills
  • Distinguish between elementary service and value added service for your patrons

Target Audience: 
Public service staff in academic and public libraries as well as beginning librarians

Prerequisites:
None

Homework Expectations and Completion Requirements: 

  • This course requires individual participation and completion of in class group assignments.
  • It is designed for individual participation; each individual must register.

Technical Requirements: 
Live Online System Requirements

Session Duration: 
This course consists of two 2-hour sessions.

Instructor:  Arta Kabashi - kabashi@amigos.org


Continuing Education Credit:
Contact Hours:  4
IACET CEUs: 0.4

As an IACET Authorized Provider, Amigos offers CEUs for its programs that qualify under the ANSI/IACET Standard.

 

 

April 21 & 28, 2015

9:30 am - 11:30 am MDT

Online Classroom
United States

Phone: 800-843-8482
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