Efficiency by Design - by Joy M Perrin (Hardcover)

About the Book

This book offers library and archive professionals a comprehensive guide to optimizing processes, with a focus on improving efficiency, speed, effectiveness, and reliability.

Book Synopsis

This book offers library and archive professionals a comprehensive guide to optimizing processes, with a focus on improving efficiency, speed, effectiveness, and reliability.

Professionals in libraries and archives often are asked to take on decades old processes and are not provided the tools to rework those processes. This book gives readers practical insight into how they can analyze and re-design their work processes to be more efficient, faster, more effective, and more reliable. Readers will learn methods for getting more done while reducing stress and burnout.

Librarians, archivists, and paraprofessionals who find themselves managing a process will find this book an excellent companion. By integrating process management techniques with the specific needs of libraries and archives, this book bridges the gap between theory and practice, providing actionable strategies to streamline workflows. Ultimately, Efficiency by Design contributes to making library and archive management more productive, sustainable, and mindful of the challenges professionals face today.

Review Quotes

"Acutely attuned to the (dis)incentives and pressures of library and archival work and with an eye toward changing our culture of busyness, Joy Perrin offers a better way forward. Efficiency by Design is a data-driven, communication-based solution to systemic problems in libraries and archives. I used it to analyze processes that turned out not to be processes and those I'd assumed were well-refined, only to find I could, in fact, do it better. Read this (unexpectedly funny) book - it will make your job easier." --Kristin Loyd, Director, Sowell Family Collection in Literature, Community and the Natural World, Texas Tech University

About the Author

Joy M. Perrin is the Digital Initiatives Librarian at the Texas Tech University Libraries. She holds a Master of Library Science from the University of North Texas. Ms. Perrin has 22 years' experience in libraries and is the author of the book Digitizing Flat Media: Principles and Practices (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015).

Today, Joy is a tenured faculty member at Texas Tech University and the head of the Digital Resources Unit at the Texas Tech University Libraries.