Lean library management : eleven strategies for reducing costs and improving customer services

Libraries today face reduced budgets, increased customer expectations, and aggressive competition from web-based information sources. In this book, author shows readers how to apply Lean principles and practices how making small, simple changes in everyday routines will reap large time- and money-sa...

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Main Author: Huber, John J.
Format: Book
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Published: New York Neal-Schuman Publishers 2011
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Institutions: Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ
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Summary:Libraries today face reduced budgets, increased customer expectations, and aggressive competition from web-based information sources. In this book, author shows readers how to apply Lean principles and practices how making small, simple changes in everyday routines will reap large time- and money-saving results. Readers learn how to: create a culture of change, define and streamline library service delivery chains, transform everyday operations like placing customer reserves and technical service processes, implement performance measures that can drive continuous improvement, apply Lean techniques in digital operations