What is Project Management Principles

Project management is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to a project's activities in order to meet its requirements. This chapter advocates for the application of project management techniques as a panacea to enhance project delivery in libraries and information centers. It extrapolates what library and information centers symbolized and also outlines the nature of projects in library and information centers. The principles of PM are also discussed, which is followed by PM skills librarians/information scientists should learn because of the essentiality of those skills to efficient and effective management of projects in libraries and information centers. It chronicles the various PM methodologies and showcases the benefits of PM in LICs before highlighting the factors influencing project failures in LICs. It is concluded that the application of project management techniques to library and information centers would enable library and information centers to be efficient in initiation, planning, execution, implementation, and finally, enhance project delivery.