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Project management, as both a skill set and a discipline, offers structure and a path forward for continual improvement and change management within libraries. Most importantly for technical services, project management creates processes that can fairly and transparently indicate how resources are allocated and guide technical services departments as they prioritize needs. Helping staff build their own project management toolkit, this book will allow readers to pick and choose which practices work best for their own situation. You will discover ways to integrate project management skills into your daily work; learn how to apply project management at a departmental level; and delve into case studies which illuminate issues related to technology, including library management system migrations, digital repository development, and electronic resource management, as well as common scenarios like high density storage and weeding, and moving or consolidating collections.

Table of Contents:
Preface Acknowledgments Part I: Implementation Perspectives Chapter 1: We Need to Make a Plan: A Journey and Guide to Project Management Robyn M. Gleasner Chapter 2: Mastering Time in Personal Project Management Andrea Miller Chapter 3: Personal Project Management in Theory and Practice Heather M. Campbell Chapter 4: Turning Big-Picture Objectives into Quarterly Deliverables Michelle Bowers Chapter 5: Project Management with a Lowercase “p”: Integrating Project Management Principles into Everyday Technical Services Work Beth Ashmore. Maria Collins, and Lynn Whittenberger Chapter 6: People Management before Project Management: Creating a Healthy Work Culture to Improve Project Collaboration and Outcomes Laurie Palumbo and Kerry Walton Part II: Case Studies Chapter 7: Agile Electronic Resource and Systems Management Geraldine Rinna Chapter 8: Consortial Projects: Centralized vs. Decentralized Approaches Jaime Taylor Chapter 9: Corralling CORAL: An Integrated Project Management Approach to Systems Migration Anastasia Guimaraes and Jessica Morales Chapter 10: Technical Services and the Project Management Approach to Library Renovations Laura Turner Chapter 11: What’s Next? Project Management for Moving or Closing a Library Alison Downey Chapter 12: Notice to Vacate: How to Move Out, Move In, and Move On Kerri Goergen-Doll, Brad Engelbert, Laura Ramos, and Margarita Zamora Saunders Chapter 13: Project Management in High-Density Storage: How to Plan for Evolving Needs Jennifer A. Maddox Abbott and Mary S. Laskowski Chapter 14: Project Management for Weeding Library Collections: A Case Study at Kennesaw State University Xueying Chen and Ana B. Guimaraes About the Contributors Index

About the Author :
Elizabeth German is the assistant director for library assessment and user experience at Princeton University Library. Previously she was an associate professor and the service design librarian at Texas A&M University Libraries, where she focused on bringing together user experience, project management, and accessibility in order to provide quality user experiences for researchers and learners. She holds a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute. John J. Ballestro is the director of collection development and acquisition services and the subject selector for graphic novels at Texas A&M University's Sterling C. Evans Library. He is an avid comic book reader, likes Kirk over Picard, and his house words could be "Winter is Coming" but are more likely to be "Wednesday is new comics day!"

Review :
"Project management as a skill and discipline has been adapted from the business world and may be underutilized in service environments such libraries. Project management is particularly difficult to implement in technical services, where daily work does not often lend itself to large team-oriented projects. There are, however, many aspects of technical services work that can be efficiently handled using project management skills, such as weeding projects, shifting books, and moving or closing entire libraries ... While one must take care that the costs of project management don’t outweigh the benefits, this work provides tools and examples to provide a solid starting point for interested librarians. Recommended reading for library administrators and technical services librarians."—Library Journal


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780838949917
  • Publisher: Association of College & Research Libraries
  • Publisher Imprint: Association of College & Research Libraries
  • Height: 226 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Weight: 363 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0838949916
  • Publisher Date: 30 Oct 2022
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Practical Tips and Case Studies
  • Width: 152 mm


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