The marvelous thing about project management skills is that they are extraordinarily valuable in many ways. They allow you to be more effective in your work and personal life. They demonstrate leadership skills that can lead to your promotion. And they earn you gratitude from everyone on a project you manage.

Janet Crum and Elisa Cortez, trained and experienced project management experts, will be your guides to developing a project management mindset and acquiring project management skills. 

You’ll learn:

• practical ways to develop detailed, actionable project plans for projects of any size
• how to break big projects into small, actionable steps
• how to avoid stress associated with managing complex projects
• how to build a project team that includes the right people in the right roles
• ways to track and communicate progress easily and thoroughly
• approaches to communicating with and motivating others and identifying problems early
• means of tracking progress to ensure you deliver outcomes on time and as painlessly as possible
• when and why you should use project management techniques
• how to manage your workload efficiently
• You’ll learn through presentation, demonstration, discussion, and small group work in which you’ll practice with tools and techniques presented in the course to create a plan for a small project.
• You’ll leave the course with know-how and confidence that will enable you to become more effective in any library role from entry level to director and in your life and able to spread the joy of project management to all you work with and for.

Learning Outcomes

• By the end of this course, you will be able to:
• Identify when and why you should use project management techniques
• Break a project into tasks and subtasks, identify dependencies among tasks, and build a detailed project plan
• Choose among types of tools for managing projects
• Apply project management skills to managing your own workload

Presenters

Janet Crum, MLS is the Dean of Library Services, Fresno State University, with over 25 years of experience managing projects in health sciences and general academic libraries. Her success in leading a complex system migration involving three libraries and difficult institutional politics led directly to a promotion to a department head role, which launched her career in library leadership.

Elisa Cortez, MILS is the Medical Education and Clinical Outreach Librarian at the University of California Riverside. She has over 25 years of experience as a medical librarian that includes work as a product manager, 10 years as head of access services, and the management of projects, large and small. A planner aficionado, she brings her project management skills to her personal and professional life.

Note: This registration is for the Livestream only and does not offer MLA contact hours. MLA contact hours are not applicable to the MLA Consumer Health Information Specialization.

If you are a LILRC Hospitall Member Librarian and are interested in watching this webinar for credit, please contact Sally Stieglitz at sstieglitz@lilrc.org to request a code.

Code of Conduct

For questions, please email Eliscia Cirrone, ecirrone@lilrc.org.

Contact Hours: 0 

Program Recording:  No 

THIS COURSE IS FOR LILRC MEMBERS ONLY 

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