{"id":5415,"date":"2022-09-13T10:36:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T14:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acohen.com\/blog\/?p=5415"},"modified":"2023-12-13T08:28:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T12:28:28","slug":"new-methods-new-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acohen.com\/blog\/new-methods-new-strategies\/","title":{"rendered":"New Library Planning Methods \/ New Digital Resource Strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To begin the development of a library or digital asset management project, consider methods of zooming into a problem and zooming out.  This will give your organization the ability to plan and develop a kaleidoscope of opportunities.  We know that you can improve your library service and your community resources.  Is there a group of users that you are not reaching?  Are there digital products that can expand access to the collection(s)? <\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/\">Jean-Louis Barsoux<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\">Michael Wade<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/\">Cyril Bouquet<\/a>, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2022\/07\/identifying-unmet-needs-in-a-digital-age\">Identifying Unmet Needs in a Digital Age<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; Ask What Digital Can Add.  Digital tools make it easier to observe the behavior of your users, because it allows the organization to learn from its success.  The organization can be more responsive to the user experience.  You can study how to provide better services to your users, and improve the user experience.   If you keep looking at the same people, in the same context, with the same tools, you risk missing new innovation, efficiencies and opportunities. <\/p>\n<h2>Strategic Thinking Workshops<\/h2>\n<p>Learn the lay of the land.  Organizing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acohen.com\/feedback.html\">Design Thinking Workshop<\/a> is perfect for AI \/ digital asset management \/ library planning projects.  If your organization is going through a digital transformation and the library service requires a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acohen.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><b>library consultant<\/b><\/a> we can help make decisions.  We can support the service and space modernization plans, user analysis and research.  We can analyze your digital asset management, product strategies, service planning and collection development strategies.     <\/p>\n<h2>Library Planning Methods to Build Momentum<\/h2>\n<p>While our library planning workshops follow many tried and true methods to build momentum, they usually start with a handful of people at a given time and expand from there.  The workshops offer unpredictable results that are fueled by the your team.  We build on the community&#8217;s enthusiasm, commitment and dedication. They tend to require hard work and scheduling &#8211; the preparation needs to be organized.  When they are organized using <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acohen.com\/experience.html\">Aaron Cohen Associates<\/a><\/b> planning methods, it generates a lot of excitement.    <\/p>\n<p>The number of opportunities or strategies generated by this type of initiative can be staggering.  For these projects can make a big impact on the <b>special library<\/b>.  It starts with a series of workshop that we can deliver to all types of libraries and digital systems development teams.  We focus on the most ordinary type of user.  We use the resource strategies to plan for the future.  <\/p>\n<h2>Identifying Library User Needs in a Digital Age<\/h2>\n<p>Below is a diagram based on Harvard Business Review Article and Authors Visualizations &#8211; Graphic Method.   <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5421\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5421\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/methods-graphic-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.acohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/methods-graphic-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"library user experience methods\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.acohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/methods-graphic-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.acohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/methods-graphic-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.acohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/methods-graphic-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.acohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/methods-graphic-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.acohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/methods-graphic-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.acohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/methods-graphic-1140x641.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5421\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">library planning methods<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To begin the development of a library or digital asset management project, consider methods of zooming into a problem and zooming out. 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