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The Future Of Flexible Work And Hybrid Work Culture Beyond Covid-19: Challenges, Opportunities And Lessons Learned At Uva Library, Mira Waller, Carla Lee Jun 2022

The Future Of Flexible Work And Hybrid Work Culture Beyond Covid-19: Challenges, Opportunities And Lessons Learned At Uva Library, Mira Waller, Carla Lee

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The COVID-19 pandemic led to some significant changes in how many of us work and live. It also exposed deep infrastructure problems and systemic equity issues around income, race, and employment and redefined the meaning of front-line essential worker. The pandemic’s acceleration of the move to remote and hybrid work in many areas, coupled with the redefining of essential work, will result in many libraries having to adapt operations and culture around a hybrid work environment.

While libraries prior to the pandemic did allow for some flexible work arrangements, telework was not an expected benefit nor was it universal enough …


Introducing Agile Principles And Management To A Library Organization, Daniel Forsman, Peter Hansson Jun 2014

Introducing Agile Principles And Management To A Library Organization, Daniel Forsman, Peter Hansson

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Libraries are pressured to adapt to changing conditions due to user demands, behavior, emerging technologies and a need for cost-efficient solutions. Software companies have turned to agile development to stay competitive and to deliver working solutions in a short timeframe. Agile processes are built upon co-operation, iterative workflows and delivering working solutions with a high business value. Agile development and management in an agile organization constitutes a controlled framework of principles with a promise to ensure that the organization focuses on the right things and is able to adapt to new needs.

The Library at Chalmers University of Technology in …


A Year From Now You Will Wish You Had Started Today - Redefining Strategy And Organization For Library Automation And Content, Daniel Forsman Apr 2013

A Year From Now You Will Wish You Had Started Today - Redefining Strategy And Organization For Library Automation And Content, Daniel Forsman

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There is a need for a new breed of organization and strategy in a changed landscape for library systems, acquisitions and discovery. This paper presents Chalmers library re-organization and strategic viewpoint on library systems, acquisitions, collection development and development methodology based on a complete overhaul of those areas to prepare us for a changed paradigm of how library systems and media is delivered to our organization and users.

Software and Data as a Service has changed the infrastructure for library automation and content delivery. Media and systems are merging in the Cloud, with vendor promise of lower total cost of …