Project Management in Technical Services

Practical Tips and Case Studies
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-8389-4991-7
Verlag: American Library Association

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Projektmanagement
• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften, Archivwesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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