With the reality of limited and/or diminishing fiscal and human resources, many library administrators have come to recognize that they must rethink agendas, leverage resources, and create new opportunities in order to accomplish their goals and objectives successfully. The resource squeeze has forced libraries to take remedial measures, the most common being library cooperatives. In fact library cooperation in its many facets has become so topical that the entire double issue of Library Management Volume 35 Numbers 4/5, 2002, was devoted to the theme: Collaboration, co-operation and consortia. Academic librarians are adopting newer and more 'non-library' strategies for their operations, with the sole aim of remaining relevant in the changing environment of higher and further education. Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs), have provided the means to meeting most of these challenges. Librarians have had to recognize that many library functions require management expertise. One such strategy is the application of project management principles to the execution of 'short-term' engagements or what may be called 'projects'. This article describes two projects that were executed at the Faculty of Engineering branch library of the University of Botswana using project management concepts. Details of the lessons learned are also provided.
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