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Becoming a Lean Library de Jeremy Nelson

Becoming a Lean Library

Autor Jeremy Nelson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – mai 2027
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
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ISBN-13: 9780443526831
ISBN-10: 0443526834
Pagini: 200
Ediția:2nd edition
Editura: ELSEVIER SCIENCE

Notă biografică

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

Cuprins

Part 1. Introduction
1. Purpose
2. Language and Organization of the Book
3. Catalog Pull Platform
4. Learner and Library Leadership Badges
5. Memory Institutions are Learning Institutions
6. The Lean Learning Library

Part 2. Generative AI Transforming Libraries
1. Overview of Generative AI
2. Societal Impacts of Large Language Models
3. Prompt Engineering for Libraries
4. Retrieval Augmented Generation for Library Collections
5. AI Agents as Library Patrons

Part 3. Organizing Libraries
1. Tracking the Future of Text and Books
2. Power and Culture
3. The Importance of Diverse Voices
4. The Long Tail of Library Services Demand
5. Models for Library Information Technology Departments
6. Evolutionary and Revolutionary Change for Library Technology
7. Catalog Pull Platform Case Studies: Sinopia and Blue Core

Part 4. Pull vs. Push: Lessons from Lean Manufacturing
1. Quick Primer on Lean Manufacturing
2. The Past as a Series of Push Processes
3. The Growth and Development of Pull
4. Applying Jidoka and Heijunka: Examples of Lean Principles
5. Genchi Genbutsu
6. Kaizen
7. Improving the Flow of Patron Services
8. Kanban
9. The Andon System in Library Workflows

Part 5. Build-Measure-Learn as an OODA Directed Acyclic Graph
1. What is a OODA DAG?
2. Building for the OODA DAG
3. Measuring during the OODA DAG
4. Learning from the OODA DAG
5. Catalog Pull Platform: BML DAGs

Part 6. Innovation Accounting and Francis Taylor (Keep or Remove?)
1. Innovation Accounting versus Financial Accounting
2. Key Concepts of Innovation Accounting
3. Knowledge Stocks versus Knowledge Flows
4. Francis Taylor and the Library's Baseline
5. Accounting for Intralibrary Loan Using the Just-In-Time Principle
6. Catalog Pull Platform Case Study

Part 7. Defining Hypotheses and Managing Complexity
1. What Is a Hypothesis?
2. Using LLMs for Hypothesis Generation
3. Business Model Canvas
4. From Business Model Canvas to Defining Hypothesis
5. Managing Complexity through Lean Principles
6. Continuous Improvement through Library Operations Standardization
7. Muda, Muri, and Mura 8. Catalog Pull Platform Case Study: Sinopia and Blue Core

Part 8. Actionable Metrics from Patron Activity
1. Actionable Metrics from the Build-Measure-Learn Cycle
2. Library Patron Activity as a Library Action Metric
3. The Myth of the Monolithic Library Patron
4. AI Agents Patrons Activity
5. The Long Tail of Library Cohorts
6. Network Activity as an Actionable Metric
7. Distinguishing between Passive and Active Metrics
8. A/B Testing as an Active Metric
9. Catalog Pull Platform Case Study: A/B Testing and Privacy

Part 9. Pivoting or Persevering when Technology Changes
1. Pivoting
2. Perseverance
3. Agile Decision Point
4. Disruption Occurs
5. Responding through Tenkan
6. Catalog Pull Platform Case Study: Pivoting towards MCP-based Services

Part 10. DevOps and DataOps as Lean Strategies (Keep or Remove?)
1. Characteristics of a Healthy DevOps Department
2. DevOps for Larger Organizations
3. DevOps for Smaller Libraries
4. Vibe Coding and Operations

Part 11. The Future as a Warehouse of Active AI Agents
1. Reclaiming "Book Warehouse"
2. Smart Collections with AI Agents
3. Peer-to-Peer Lending
4. Extending into Communities
5. Increasing Serendipity through Creation Spaces
6. Leading from the Edge