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Planning for Automation:   A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians, Second Edition. By John M. Cohn, Ann L. Kelsey, and Keith Michael Fiels.NY: Neal-Schuman, 1997. [1-55570-313-5] 149pp.

Chapter 4:     A Model Two-Day Process for Developing a Basic Strategic Plan

  • Using a Facilitator to Plan
  • Step One:  Identifying the Planning Participants
  • Step Two:  Brainstorming Exercises
  • Step Three:  Assigning Point Values
  • Step Four:  Creating Issues, Goals and Objectives

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Chapter 5:    Identifying Technological Options for Automation

  • Issues in Joining a Consortium
  • An Example of a Funding Formula for Consortia
  • Sources

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Chapter 6:    Translating Needs and Priorities into Specifications for Networked  Systems

  • Designing Specifications
  • Planning Networked Systems
  • Sources

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Chapter 7:    Turning Your Spcecifications Into A Request For Vendor  Proposals

  • Preparing the RFP
  • Outline for RFPs for an Online, Automated Integrated Library System
  • Sources

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Chapter 8:    Evaluating Proposals

  • Making the First Cut
  • Making the Final Cut
  • Sources

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