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Thank you all for your great suggestions...I really do appreciate it! I also had a few people email me off-list and I wanted to provide a summary of all the tools that were mentioned to me. Microsoft Teams (for communication) + Microsoft Shifts (for scheduling) When to Work When to Work (scheduling) ...

I'm curious for those of you at academic libraries: What tools do you use to communicate with and schedule student workers? We've been using the paid version of Sling, but the cost is becoming trending toward unsustainable. We have 35 student workers and are looking for something to help with scheduling, ...

We, too, have seen low applicant pools. Prior to the pandemic, we would get anywhere from 25-50 applications for a librarian position. The two most recent searches (2022 and 2021) barely yielded double-digits. We're not rural - it's a suburban area 20 minutes from downtown Milwaukee. And we are sandwiched ...

In terms of recruitment, I know a lot of library colleagues will not apply for positions that have no salary info listed in the job ad. And I can't blame them for that. I work at a small, private university (so my lens is through that) and this is something I'm trying to work toward with HR. Currently, ...