Cover -- Productivity for Librarians: How to get more done in less time -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of tables -- About the author -- Acknowledgments -- 1 What is productivity? -- History of productivity -- What productivity is not -- Why librarians? Why libraries? -- Why you? -- 2 Motivation -- The big picture and setting goals -- SMART goals -- What if I have no goals? -- Achieving balance -- How to achieve balance at work -- Keeping balance outside the workplace -- Burnout and setting limits -- Improving communication -- How to say no -- Making your workspace work -- Finding the fun -- A focus on the future -- Rewards -- Questions to consider -- 3 Procrastination -- Procrastination and perfectionism -- Procrastination as avoidance -- Procrastination as poor impulse control -- How to minimise procrastination -- Dealing with e-mail -- Dealing with other distractions -- The Pomodoro Technique -- Procrastination as motivation? -- The to-do list -- To-do lists and organisation -- Tools to help organise to-do lists -- Getting started with to-do lists -- To-do list as tool, not lifestyle -- Questions to consider -- 4 Time management -- Time management quiz -- Identifying peak productivity times -- How to get out the door at the end of the day -- Defending your time -- Multitasking -- Dealing with meetings -- Smart multitasking -- Office hours -- Setting priorities -- Delegating -- Calendar tools -- Not just the tools -- Questions to consider -- 5 Systems of productivity -- The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People -- Getting Things Done -- Never Check E-Mail in the Morning -- Bit Literacy -- The Four-Hour Workweek -- Zen to Done -- One Year to an Organized Work Life -- Systems quiz -- A cautionary note -- Questions to consider -- 6 Managing for productivity -- First take the mote from your own eye -- Trust is the key -- Avoiding micromanagement.

Communication is everything -- Availability -- Breaking the cycle of crisis management -- Burnout and the organisation -- Anticipate the future and plan for it now -- Questions to consider -- 7 Sticking with productivity -- Take your time -- Visualise the change -- Accountability is a virtue -- Creating focus -- The media diet -- The review process -- The mind dump -- Flexibility -- Trust your system -- Rewards revisited -- Don't break the chain -- Resistance to change -- Should I quit? -- Is that all there is? -- Questions to consider -- 8 Resource guide -- General online resources -- Motivation -- Procrastination -- Time management -- Systems -- Articles on the application of Seven Habits -- General articles and books of interest -- The final word -- 9 Wrapping up -- Bibliography -- Index.