The text of this article makes it clear that this isn’t a case of a library eliminating periodicals, even print volumes (they are however, eliminating it as a technical services department and spreading the duties among other areas), but a strong examination of how one library adapted their personnel structure in order to better reflect changes in their services.
I actually find the “Provisional Organization for Communication” to be the most interesting change implemented. Self selecting from among six groups based on where you feel your job duties fit (and you can select more than one, if you overlap) strikes me as a very good way to establish who needs to communicate with whom, as well as enabling one to diagram the communication pathways in the organization. Its possible that an organizational structure could be developed from that process alone.
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