Open AccessBook Review: Navigating the Future with Scenario Planning: A Guidebook for Librarians
Author(s) -
Larry Cooperman
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
reference and user services quarterly/reference and user services quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.443
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 2163-5242
pISSN - 1094-9054
DOI - 10.5860/rusq.55n2.170a
Subject(s) - rand corporation , contingency plan , contingency , corporation , operations research , computer science , political science , management , library science , sociology , engineering , economics , computer security , epistemology , law , philosophy
No librarian likes to think about any potential problems that may arise in their library in the future. But how does one effectively prepare for potential future emergencies? Scenario planning, with a technique originated by Herman Kahn and the RAND Corporation after World War II, can be adapted by librarians to do contingency planning.