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

pdf

File Size

861 Kb

Language

English

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