Title
The Importance of Being Lean: Using Lean Principles and Tools to Improve Acquisitions Workflows
Meeting name
Charleston Conference, Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition
Meeting location
Charleston, SC
Document Type
Presentation
Publication Date
11-2014
Abstract
This presentation demonstrated how the UNLV University Libraries Acquisitions team is using Lean principles to analyze and improve acquisitions processes for firm and approval print and electronic monographic workflows. Lean process improvement is a system of concepts and tools to help an organization provide high value and high quality to our users in an efficient manner.
In this session, the presenters provided a brief overview of lean principles and how this system can be adapted to a library setting. The presenters showed working examples of Lean-specific tools, like a Value-Stream map, that helped improve the UNLV Libraries acquisitions process.
Keywords
Academic libraries; Acquisitions (Libraries); Continuous improvement process; Lean manufacturing
Disciplines
Collection Development and Management | Library and Information Science
Repository Citation
Novak, J.,
Zwiercan, R. J.
(2014, November).
The Importance of Being Lean: Using Lean Principles and Tools to Improve Acquisitions Workflows.
Presentation at Charleston Conference, Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition,
Charleston, SC.
Available at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/libfacpresentation/126