TY  - BOOK
AU  - Huber,John J.
TI  - Lean library management: eleven strategies for reducing costs and improving customer services 
SN  - 9781555707323
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Neal-Schuman Publishers
KW  - Library administration
KW  - Libraries
KW  - Cost control
KW  - Public services (Libraries)
KW  - Organizational change
KW  - Organizational effectiveness
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Prologue : the power of a lean transformation -- Strategy one. Recognize that service performance is the key to customer retention -- Strategy two. Transform your change-resistant culture -- Strategy three. Understand how delivery service chains drive your library's performance -- Strategy four. Align your performance metrics with your delivery service chains -- Strategy five. Transform your new book delivery service chain -- Strategy six. Transform your customer holds/reserves delivery service chain -- Strategy seven. Transform your cost control philosophy to a lean service improvement philosophy -- Strategy eight. Transform your overall library service performance metrics -- Strategy nine. Transform your digital research delivery service chain -- Strategy ten. Transform your delivery service chain from a'push' to a'pull' philosophy -- Strategy eleven. Think lean before the concrete is poured -- Afterword : lean continuous improvement -- Appendix : more lean tools
ER  -