In this class, participants will review the skills and experiences needed to be exemplary project managers in a library organization. Interactive and dynamic activities such as discussions, reading assignments, and class exercises will accompany each week鈥檚 lectures. The four-part topical tour of project management will culminate with a final project based on project management principles. The course is self-paced.
Learning Outcomes
- Issues facing new and existing managers who need to create project management plans.
- The importance of project champions, administrators, and cross-departmental staff will be covered in depth.
- Effective communication (written and verbal), training staff, managing cross departmental projects, delegating tasks, and being the middle manager. Leading literature will be uncovered, reviewed and discussed.
By the end of the course, participants will be prepared to assume both leadership roles and managerial roles, in relation to effective project management.
Benefits of Participating in eLearning from RUSA:
- Learn directly from subject matter experts and gain essential skills for your professional growth
- Your purchase helps fund advocacy, awareness, and accreditation programs for library professionals
- You help support RUSA, which is a leading advocate group for library resources and information services and collections
Who Should Attend
All library staff and professionals who are in managerial roles, those who aspire for these roles, or those who are forced into such roles.
Instructor
Debra Lucas has been the Head of Reference and Interlibrary Loan at D’Youville College in Buffalo, NY, since 2002. She is the author of Marketing the 21st Century Library: the Time is Now, published by Chandos, an imprint of Elsevier. She has been an online instructor in Library Studies since 2012.
Her book chapters appear in Middle Management in Academic and Public Libraries (2011) and the 21st Century Handbook of Anthropology (2010). Dozens of encyclopedia articles appear in the Encyclopedia of Power (2011), the Encyclopedia of Time (2009), the Encyclopedia of Anthropology (2005), and the 20th Century Encyclopedia of Pop Culture (2000). She has also published academic journal articles in Collaborative Librarianship (2011), the Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve (2009), and the Journal of Library and Information Science (2007). Additionally, she served as an editor for the Journal of Library Innovation.
At D’Youville and in the surrounding communities, she routinely guest lectures in the field of librarianship and research (2007-). She graduated from the Western New York Library Resources Council Leadership Institute (2006-2007) and also was a Leadership Institute Graduation Keynote Speaker (2009). Currently she is completing studies to become a faculty governance senate parliamentarian and is writing her first fictional novel. She was awarded a Sabbatical in 2014, a Fellowship Award in 2015-2016, and was then promoted to full-librarian in 2016.
She resides in Snyder, NY with her college aged son
Registration
Cost
- $129.50听for RUSA members
- $188.10听for ALA members
- $209听for non-ALA members
- $141.08 for student members and retired members
How to Register
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- By Mail: download, complete and mail(PDF Format) to 91传媒, ATTN: MACS/Online CE Registration, 225 N. Michigan Ave. Suite 1300, Chicago, IL 60601
Tech Requirements
ALA uses Moodle for all online educational courses. It is hosted at听听Learn more about Moodle at听.
All content for this course will be provided by the instructor. No textbook required.
The Moodle login instructions will be sent the Friday before the start date. The course site will remain open one week after the end date for students to complete any assignments and submit the course evaluation survey.
Credits
Continuing Education Credit - A certificate of completion will be sent to each participant upon successful completion of a course.
Although this course is not CEU-certified, many licensing boards will accept it for credit. Requirements vary by state and school district regarding certification and continuing education credits. The decision to grant CEU credits remains entirely up to your state or school district. If you are in need of credits, check with your state and/or school district before enrolling to determine eligibility. Some states will review your certificate of completion and course description to determine eligibility
Contact
Questions about your registration should be directed to registration@ala.org. Technical questions about the course should be directed to Ninah Moore at nmoore@ala.org
Thank you and we look forward to your participation!