Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-15-2015
Publication Title
Strategic Library
Issue
16
First page number:
1
Last page number:
6
Abstract
In August 2014, the director of the Collections, Acquisitions, and Discovery division within the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Libraries announced that the division would be reorganized to best use the skills and strengths of existing staff. This division, responsible for acquiring, organizing, maintaining, and making discoverable all needed and relevant materials would be composed of three departments, and the Resource Acquisition, Sharing, and Digital Scholarship department (containing the Resource Acquisition and Sharing Unit) would be one of them. To fulfill the goals of the reorganization, the acquisitions team used Lean principles and tools, specifically the value stream map, to understand and improve its processes.
Keywords
Academic libraries; Academic libraries--Acquisitions; Acquisitions (Libraries); Lean manufacturing; Libraries
Disciplines
Collection Development and Management | Library and Information Science
File Format
File Size
861 Kb
Language
English
Repository Citation
Novak, J.,
Zwiercan, R. J.
(2015).
Reorganizing through Lean Principles.
Strategic Library(16),
1-6.
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/lib_articles/478