To Access Resources

To borrow books, contact Karen Paris.

To access books online through Skillsoft, contact Karen Paris.

To access articles listed in many of the topic sections, click on article title to print at your local printer.

To view all books and resources, come to BLI's Library located in BLDG 4 (see map).

Administrative/Administrative Assistant

This section includes miscellaneous administrative reference guides and tools to help administrative assistant staff develop and improve skills that are fundamental to their role.

Career Development

This domain provides a large spectrum of resources to help individuals manage their careers more successfully—from career choice and design, to salary negotiation, to trends in employment.

Communication/Interpersonal

This domain contains models and tools for multiple aspects of improved professional communication and interpersonal relationship.  Here you will find toolkits and hand books for networking, resolving conflict, negotiating, clearly and succinctly conveying ideas and information to individuals and groups, becoming more interpersonally savvy and sensitive, and much more.

Human Resource Nuts and Bolts

Resource guides, reference books, and handbooks for Human Resource operations its core functions.

Individual Effectiveness

This section provides insights into strategies for how to have more energy, be more relaxed, and get a lot more accomplished with much less effort.

Leadership 

This domain contains developmental materials that support leaders in establishing strategic direction, creating the necessary systems and processes, integrating sustainable values, and forming connections with stakeholders to successfully move the organization forward towards a vibrant and prosperous future.

Organizational/Management

This domain contains resources that pertain to the skills and behaviors necessary at all levels of an organization to keep it functioning at peak levels.  It includes everything from day-to-day operational problem solving and decision making, to implementing important initiatives, to creating positive and productive environments, to higher level issues such as theories about organizational structure.

Personal Growth and Effectiveness

In this domain you will discover a rich variety of resources for improving one’s personal effectiveness and fostering personal growth.  It includes materials on everything from success at work to physical and spiritual health.

Science Specific: Careers and Professional Development

Resources in this domain address standard professional and organizational development imperatives—for example, leadership and career development—with the added focus of being written by and/or for those in scientific roles and organizations.  (See also other sections of the Resource Library for detailed information on leadership and other topics in general.)

Supervision

The number one determining factor of employee satisfaction is the quality of their relationship with their direct supervisor.  In like fashion, supervision should not be a popularity contest.  This supervision domain contains resources for helping supervisors and managers motivate the day-to-day work of their direct reports and achieve organizational goals through others in a way that builds respectful and trusting relationships. 

 (see also “Coaching and Mentoring” under leadership)

Technical

Here you will find reference guides for all major desktop applications and issues as well as tools for E-commerce, website, and internet skills.