Project Management Fundamentals

Four-week Course + Workshop | Live sessions: April 15, 22, 29, & May 6, 2025 | 11:00 am - 12:45 pm

Transform your library projects and drive impact in your community by becoming proficient in project management skills. 

Project management skills and strategies are useful in all kinds of situations, not just formal projects. This online course will help you understand and apply project management as a mindset that will help the way you approach all kinds of challenges. In this four-week course, you will learn the foundations of project management in a library context to ensure that your future projects are set up for success. You will learn the ins and outs of taking a project from start to finish and how to manage your project team members along the way. 

Learning Outcomes

After you attend this course, you’ll be able to:

• Understand the intersections of project management and librarianship
• Create and follow a realistic work plan
• Manage personnel and team dynamics
• Track budgets and deliverables clearly and efficiently 
• Work within institutional constraints and guidelines
• Report on project progress with confidence and clear metrics

Who should take this course

This course is for any library worker whose role involves planning and completing mid- to large-scale projects. This course is appropriate for all levels of library staff.

Course Features 

This will be a 4-week online course and will include:

• Live sessions: Guest speaker presentations by leaders in their field. (All sessions are recorded for on-demand access for six months after the course ends.) 
• Facilitated discussions: Audience participation in Q&A and discussion with guest speakers.
• Asynchronous workshop: Project-based weekly assignments to connect what you’re learning to your professional life. Includes written feedback from an expert in the field who functions as the workshop facilitator, as well as peer conversation via discussion forums. Workshop available for all multi-week courses plus half-day courses where indicated. 
• Early access on-demand resources: Access to a series of past live session archives from Library Journal and School Library Journal courses to explore at your own pace. 
• Online Classroom: The virtual learning platform that holds all course content and is accessible for six months after the course ends. 

Expected time commitment

If you watch the recordings of all sessions and participate in the asynchronous workshop, you'll spend approximately 2-4 hours per week on this course. You'll earn 20 hours of PD credit and a Library Journal certificate of completion. 

CALL Training Partner for this Event: Library Journal