Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Meeting with Library Human Resource (Continue July 15, 2009)

After meeting with Janene, I met with Diane Turner, who is the head of Human Resources. She the 32 years of working she has been responsible for hiring, for salary and how much people are paid, training, and recruiting. She also has done Community Relations with schools, like Hill Regional Career High School, in Book Bowl, curriculum, looking at libraries, advising on research, and media specialist. Other programs she's been involved in are Book Drives for Little Children, with COOP doing a program where students in their history classes research their own history or their family's history, and had worked on different Boards like the one on AIDS. All her life she's wanted to do this kind of job because she loved working wiith people, solving challenges, and finding people the right jobs. Some benefits that she feels the community receives from what she does is the availability to resources and strengthening the view of the public schools. Somethings she hope could improve was the violence and the high school drop outs. Another future goal is to raise funds for the United Ways Agency. Some memorable experiences that she's had involve personal stories that she's heard and the people she's met. Some things that she has seen change from the time she began working is the technology, diversity, the social changes like for instance the style of clothing that people wear, and most important the white house with our new president Obama.

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