Title: Becoming a Lean Library: Lessons from the World of Technology Start-ups (Chandos Information Professional Series)
Publisher: Chandos Publishing
Publication Date: 2016
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1843347792
ISBN 13: 9781843347798
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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Becoming a Lean Library: Lessons from the World of Technology Start-ups provides a guide to the process and approach necessary to manage product development.

Using techniques and philosophies pioneered by Toyota's lean manufacturing success, Becoming a Lean Library provides library leadership advice and tips on making the library more nimble, lean, and responsive to technological change.

Early chapters introduce the reader to the idea of lean start-ups in libraries, followed by chapters covering library systems, lessons from lean manufacturing, and the build-measure-learn model. Remaining chapters discuss technology change and DevOps as a lean strategy, while also giving the reader the opportunity to earn a professional online "badge" on the subject material of the book.

Introduces lean startup and lean manufacturing theory and practice
Applies Lean Startup Principles to Libraries
Allows readers to earn two Openbadges to demonstrate professional education accomplishment through social networking and for compensation purposes
Only book in its market that illustrates lean principles at work

About the Author

Jeremy Nelson is a software engineer at Stanford University Libraries with over twenty years’ experience in academic libraries as a librarian and software developer. He is the technical lead for the multiple institutional Blue Core project and was the technical lead for the Sinopia Linked Data Editor, used by librarians and staff from across the world. Nelson is also co-chair for the ai4lam Metadata Working Group and has given multiple presentations at regional, national, and international library and technology conferences on using AI with BIBFRAME Linked Data and with the FOLIO Library Services Platform

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