ER&L 2015

February 22–25, 2015

Austin, Texas

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Re-reorganization of Technical Services Departments to reflect increases in electronic content

Tuesday, February 24, 2015 at 1:15 PM–1:30 PM CST

Room 204

Conference Track

3. Organizational Strategies

Keywords

Management; Library organization; Organizational structures

Learning Objectives

By the end of this session, users should be able to understand:
The reasons that shifts in material formats had led to a shift in areas needing greater support.
The current issues revolving around areas of duplication of effort, such as invoicing and standing orders.
How a next generation library system affects the organizational workflow.
The areas that this workflow is anticipated to allow growth into increasingly electronic library content.

Abstract

A department manager's retirement led the O’Neill Library to reexamine its organizational structure, and to analyze the ways in which it no longer fit the work that was performed. Since its last re-organization, many problems had been improved upon, a new-next-generation library system was implemented, and more content is electronic.