Productivity for Librarians

<p>List of tables</p> <p>About the author</p> <p>Acknowledgments</p> <p>Preface</p> <p>Chapter 1: What is productivity?</p> <p>History of productivity</p> <p>What productivity is not</p> <p>Why librarians? Why libraries?</p> <p>Why you?</p> <p>Chapter 2: Motivation</p> <p>The big picture and setting goals</p> <p>SMART goals</p> <p>What if I have no goals?</p> <p>Achieving balance</p> <p>How to achieve balance at work</p> <p>Keeping balance outside the workplace</p> <p>Burnout and setting limits</p> <p>Improving communication</p> <p>How to say no</p> <p>Making your workspace work</p> <p>Finding the fun</p> <p>A focus on the future</p> <p>Rewards</p> <p>Questions to consider</p> <p>Chapter 3: Procrastination</p> <p>Procrastination and perfectionism</p> <p>Procrastination as avoidance</p> <p>Procrastination as poor impulse control</p> <p>How to minimise procrastination</p> <p>Dealing with e-mail</p> <p>Dealing with other distractions</p> <p>The Pomodoro Technique</p> <p>Procrastination as motivation?</p> <p>The to-do list</p> <p>To-do lists and organisation</p> <p>Tools to help organise to-do lists</p> <p>Getting started with to-do lists</p> <p>To-do list as tool, not lifestyle</p> <p>Questions to consider</p> <p>Chapter 4: Time management</p> <p>Time management quiz</p> <p>Identifying peak productivity times</p> <p>How to get out the door at the end of the day</p> <p>Defending your time</p> <p>Multitasking</p> <p>Dealing with meetings</p> <p>Smart multitasking</p> <p>Office hours</p> <p>Setting priorities</p> <p>Delegating</p> <p>Calendar tools</p> <p>Not just the tools</p> <p>Questions to consider</p> <p>Chapter 5: Systems of productivity</p> <p>The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People</p> <p>Getting Things Done</p> <p>Never Check E-Mail in the Morning</p> <p>Bit Literacy</p> <p>The Four-Hour Workweek</p> <p>Zen to Done</p> <p>One Year to an Organized Work Life</p> <p>Systems quiz</p> <p>A cautionary note</p> <p>Questions to consider</p> <p>Chapter 6: Managing for productivity</p> <p>First take the mote from your own eye</p> <p>Trust is the key</p> <p>Avoiding micromanagement</p> <p>Communication is everything</p> <p>Availability</p> <p>Breaking the cycle of crisis management</p> <p>Burnout and the organisation</p> <p>Anticipate the future and plan for it now</p> <p>Questions to consider</p> <p>Chapter 7: Sticking with productivity</p> <p>Take your time</p> <p>Visualise the change</p> <p>Accountability is a virtue</p> <p>Creating focus</p> <p>The media diet</p> <p>The review process</p> <p>The mind dump</p> <p>Flexibility</p> <p>Trust your system</p> <p>Rewards revisited</p> <p>Don’t break the chain</p> <p>Resistance to change</p> <p>Should I quit?</p> <p>Is that all there is?</p> <p>Questions to consider</p> <p>Chapter 8: Resource guide</p> <p>General online resources</p> <p>Motivation</p> <p>Procrastination</p> <p>Time management</p> <p>Systems</p> <p>Others that might be of interest:</p> <p>Articles on the application of Seven Habits</p> <p>General articles and books of interest</p> <p>The final word</p> <p>Chapter 9: Wrapping up</p> <p>Bibliography</p> <p>Index</p>