How to Eat an Elephant: Strategies for Using Student Workers to Tackle Backlogs

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This poster will address strategic hiring of students and creative ways of thinking and outreach to tackle challenging backlog projects, describing the following: determining the scope of the ATM’s nebulous backlog; seeking students with skills outside of the traditional music library skillset; implementing new procedures for capturing statistics. ATM students will also discuss their part of “the elephant in the archive”.

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Archives, Technical services (Libraries), Project management

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McClanahan, Allison, Ryan Johnson, Sarah Ward, Lindsay Weaver. “How to Eat an Elephant: Strategies for Using Student Workers to Tackle Backlogs.” Poster presentation for the Midwest Chapter of the Music Library Association, Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 19, 2018.

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