What is it about?

The story of how a small liberal arts college library merged two departments by focusing on respect and flexibility

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Why is it important?

As libraries migrate to new systems, major changes affect people's daily workflows. Teams must prepare by figuring out how we will work together to make that happen with minimal disruption and stress.

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When I began this new position, my challenge was how to bring two departments together as one, in preparation for selecting and migrating to an entirely new software system for the library. This is the story of how our team worked together to prepare for that huge change.

Jonathan Hoyt Harwell
Rollins College

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This page is a summary of: Rompiendo Barreras: Reorganizing Technical and Digital Services in a Small Academic Library, October 2014, Purdue University Press,
DOI: 10.5703/1288284315282.
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