Law Librarians Adding Project Management to their Survival Kits

Carol Watson, Associate Director for Information Technology at the University of Georgia School of Law, refers to project management as a "survival skill" in a recent article published on LLRX.com, a popular Web journal dedicated to the legal research community.^[1] Ms. Watson's article provides a high-level overview of standard project management, focusing on defining the project scope, developing a work breakdown structure and communication plan, and closing out the project with a "debriefing" (i.e. a lessons-learned exercise).

I was a bit disappointed that the article doesn't provide examples of law-library projects. Ms. Watson states that "[m]any of the techniques librarians intuitively use are clearly articulated as a formal structure with specific guidelines and regularized vocabulary,"^[2] but doesn't share any illustrations of this. Doing so would have given her audience a clearer sense of how the project-management processes she discusses apply to their legal library projects.