ARL Libraries and Staff Development: A Suggested Model for Success

tion, and Maintenance Model (RPTIM) is described. Concepts in the model are related to a broad overview of current staff development and continuing education efforts in academic li-braries. Results of a survey of staff developers in ARL libraries suggest that 80 percent of the model describes practices appropriate to the academic/research library setting. In addition, re-spondents indicated that existing staff development programs generally did not meet the crite-ria staff developers agreed should be part of their libraries ' program. ffective continuing education and staff development pro-grams in libraries are becoming more pressing needs as fast-paced change remains with us. Sheila Creth identifies continuing education as a priority and exhorts academic librarians to assess critically the degree of support con-tinuing education receives from library administrators. 1 This study examines