Summary of class discussions:  Staffing, workflow, communications across the organization and juggling competing collection needs – traditional activities vs. digital, writing and understanding Mission Statements, Understanding how to implement change, organizing and planning programs and functions

• Designing a Project or Program such as a Brittle Books Program.

• Keeping up with change and developments

• Supervising and working cooperatively within and without the department

Readings:

• Higginbotham and Wild – Preservation Program Blueprint chapter 3

• Giesecke – Practical Strategies for Library management chapter 3

• Managing Preservation: A Guidebook Columbus, Ohio: State Library of Ohio, 1995, Chapters 1-2 entitled “Preservation: It’s Every Librarian’s Concern,” and “An Archivist Looks at Preservation, pp. 1-19.

• The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeff Cox readings to be assigned

• “To Preserve the Best and Noblest Thoughts of Man” American Beginnings by Barbra Buckner Higginbotham in Advances in Preservation and Access Vol. 1 p2-18

• Write a mission statement and collecting policy for your collection.  (1 page each)