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Evaluating and Improving Your Organizational Health

The best research on organizational health indicates that innovative and resilient organizations share some common attributes. Organizations that don'...

Library Staff Training Blogs

Training Student Employees for Success

I have an old photo of myself taken during my college orientation a few weeks before classes started. Instead of attending social events, I was…in the...

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How to Run an Effective Job Interview

Finding the right person for a job can be hard. First impressions, body language, and other factors can easily distract you from recognizing the best ...

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Ask an Expert: Unpacking Information Literacy with Laura Saunders

The most important thing is for librarians to keep an eye on the larger trends and environment and what is happening on their own campuses to identify...

About Niche Academy Blogs

5 Innovative Ways Public Libraries Can Use Niche Academy

Going Beyond Staff Training Niche Academy is a great staff training and development tool, but did you know there are other ways to use the platform? T...

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Meet Jeremy Tuttle - Niche Academy Director of Learning Design

Here at Niche Academy, we strive to help people solve big problems together—and each member of our team plays a vital role in meeting our goals. Today...

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Building a Better Workplace Culture

How would you describe your workplace culture? How does everyone do what they do, and how do their actions make others feel? If you had to express the...

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Preparing for Censorship & Other Book Challenges

In late 2022, Publisher’s Weekly named their People of the Year—The Defenders. This extraordinary group of librarians, booksellers, authors, publisher...

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The Top 3 Challenges Facing Libraries Today (And How to Overcome Them)

“The golden age of public libraries dawns once again.”  If you read the Washington Post , you would have encountered that bold headline in the Opinion...

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Top 5 Professional Skills to Develop in 2023

There's nothing permanent except change -Heraclitus. How will technologies like cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) change your workplace...