Publisher Description

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

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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