On the Road Again: Planning the Transfer of an Academic Transportation Research Library's Archival Collection to University Archives

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So much of project planning is circumstantial. Even after the approval of a formal project proposal or plan, an unsuspecting shift in environmental factors can often alter or redirect a project’s original objectives, goals, and purpose. In the face of such change it is not uncommon for members of a project team to find themselves, in a sense, “on the road again,” re-evaluating and perhaps even re-envisioning the course and direction of a project. Project planning practiced in this way—as a continuous process as opposed to a single, linear stage completed prior to a project’s launch—provided the small, one-person transportation research library at the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center (HSRC) with a manageable way to plan and keep project documentation during a three-year period, from 2013 to 2016, that saw tremendous change to the library and its larger role at HSRC. This report documents the process of composing a project plan for transferring HSRC Library’s archival collection of original research manuscripts, publications, and ephemera to UNC-CH University Archives and illustrates one way a project planner might create and keep project plan documentation within small and single-librarian environments.

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