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Siess, Judith A. Time Management, Planning and Prioritization for Librarians. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8108-4438-9. $29.95. Purchase from Amazon.com.
Siess, an expert in solo librarianship and interpersonal networking, offers a potpourri of time management, planning and prioritization tips. Topics include: looking at time, learning to use time more efficiently and effectively, dealing with job stress, and creating a strategic plan. The title ends with a four-step plan on prioritization. Appendix A lists a plethora of resources; B contains ready-to-reproduce forms. Siess pulls together a multitude of systems and ideas from a variety of sources -- and is able to show how it all relates to librarians. Ideas from solo and corporate librarians in the field are adaptable to suit any library workplace. Of value to both neophyte and seasoned, organized and disorganized librarians, this book does not hold the secret on how librarians can do it all... but then, no book does! If you are looking, however, for ways to be a more effective, efficient, productive and valuable librarian, then this book is for you.
Zahra M. Baird is a Children's Librarian at the Scarsdale Public Library in Westchester County, NY. Her interests include multiple intelligences, stress management, watercolor painting and poetry.