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The library's renovation and stacks-books reduction projects began more than 1000 days ago. During these past 4 years, the projects suffered numerous starts and stops as those involved changed due to staff turnover in the library caused by the pandemic, the elimination of positions due to lower enrollment, the closure of the physical library caused by the pandemic, and shifting leadership priorities. First came the campus construction initiative that reduced library space. Then I introduce myself as the source main source of information for the article. Next, I lead you through the progression of the projects by examining the projects' goals and objectives, assessing the projects, assigning roles for the project, and determining the project's costs. Finally, I conclude with the challenges I faced and the lessons I learned by fostering change from this ongoing project management experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this column, we share what we have done before to teach students how to access the databases. In addition, we briefly discuss our past marketing efforts and the tools we used for our information literacy assessment programs in the past. Finally, we discuss what we're doing now including the platform we chose and why, the audience (who is this for), and the details of the project plan. Ultimately, by migrating from Teachable to the Learning Management System tools for the online library orientation program I have reduced redundant technologies, saved the library money, and reduced my workload. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How librarians and archivists communicate the value of a major project, like making institutional archives discoverable online, to all community stakeholders can be challenging when they are not receptive to the change or don't see the project'sproposed value. This column is a first-hand account of the challenges associated with communicating the results of a lengthy and complicated project that has high perceived value by librarians and archivists to community stakeholders with minimal understanding of a this project's limitations and scope. In this column, we will summarize lessons learned from an 11-month-long archival digitization and discoverability project that saved institutional artifacts from further decay. The project frustrated stakeholders who couldn't search for most of the digitized artifacts due to the lack of metadata which prevented easy searching and locating items they were looking for. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In August 2020, the library physically reopened to students, staff, and faculty with reduced hours for the Fall 2020 Semester. In the Fall 2020 Semester, library staff sat near the front of the library to answer in-person questions. Traffic was significantly reduced from pre-COVID operational hours because all classes were online, and, as a result, face-to-face questions from the College community were lower. However, maintaining a socially safe distance between staff and patrons when questions were asked in-person was challenging to enforce. As a result of the library staff's experiences, we set up a Zoom TV in the front of the library at the beginning of the Spring 2021 Semester to keep library staff safe during COVID-19. Additionally, in this column, we share how academic libraries have used video conferencing software pre- and post-pandemic, how we provided socially distanced virtual research consultations via a Zoom TV, promoted in-person support via the Zoom TVs, setting up the Zoom TV, Zoom TV tips, results from using Zoom TV during the Spring 2021 Semester, and finally our next steps. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using personally identifiable information (PII) (patron data) to make informed decisions in academic libraries through learning analytics programs has increasingly become more commonplace. In this column, we discuss how libraries around the world have used PII to make informed decisions about hours (gate count), electronic resources (collection usage and authentication), and research assistance (virtual reference). In addition, we discuss the use of learning analytics in library environments including the benefits and concerns associated with its use. Finally, we discuss how we have used PII at our institution's library and the data metrics we plan utilize at some point in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]