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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]

Libraries increasingly need to justify their budgets to governing boards, administration, legislatures, and accrediting agencies. How librarians with faculty status are evaluated is typically different than how librarians without faculty status are evaluated and the evaluation process differs at each institution. To demonstrate the value of their scholarly work including (presentations, publications, service, funding, and work accomplished), librarians perhaps consider designing an electronic portfolio and share it with these external groups who control library budgets. In this column, we will share with you our readers a brief literature review, how and why we built our electronic academic portfolio in Notion, and finally a summary of our experiences using Notion for our electronic academic portfolio as our academic portfolio in Notion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, the College's library and the office of institutional research & training (OIRT), along with all departments of our college, shifted to working from home (WFH) overnight. This column shares examples from the literature regarding experiences and lessons learned from both the corporate world and academic libraries' experiences managing teams remotely with technology. Finally, we share how the College's academic library and OIRT transitioned to working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic with the variety of online tools we already used, but further enhanced during this experience, to communicate and collaborate effectively with our team members. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]