Public Librarian’s Human Resources Handbook: Employer Rights and Responsibilities

Two features endear me to this book. The first is the truly excellent layout. The whole work is beautifully crafted, from its smart functional cover and detailed contents pages, which itemize every subheading, through the 12 chapters with their quotes, introductions, clearly marked sections and headings, to the glossary, bibliography and index at the end. Each chapter starts with a suitably thought‐provoking quotation, a brief introduction, and then divides and subdivides into page or half‐page sections of straightforward factual prose. Bullet points, summaries, boxed definitions, case studies, abstracts of legislation and other relevant documents, chapter bibliographies and notes, all add...