Project Management For Libraries: A Practical Approach

Library work often involves coordinating projects with many tasks and many stakeholders where cost and time limitations can be seen as opportunities. Effective project management is worth learning! This book provides library staffers at every level--whether in public, academic, school or special libraries--with the basic tools of project management so that they can gain confidence and an expectation of success. The first section, Preparing for Project Management, covers the terminology, the philosophy, the resource management and the return on investment of project management. The second section, Planning and Implementing Project Management, introduces the basics of the methodology designed by the Project Management Institute. The third section, Library Resources, discusses practical techniques for specific types of library projects, gives an introduction to agile management, and features success stories in library project management. The book includes many examples of project management.

• | Author: Robin A. Buser|Bruce Edward Massis|Miriam Pollack
• | Publisher: Mcfarland & Company
• | Publication Date: Oct 01, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 228 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0786496061
• | ISBN-13: 9780786496068