For many years, Joe has been a library consultant involved in a wide range of projects ranging from strategic planning, evaluation of library services and technology planning.

As a consultant, Joe has assisted numerous libraries and local governments in a wide variety of projects including:

• Assisting with the assessment of academic libraries
• Assessing the value and performance of services
• Preparing strategic plans
• Developing performance measures for libraries
• Assessing the options for a shared automated library system
• Preparing long range plans for a consortium of libraries
• Developing a Library Balanced Scorecard
• Preparing information technology plans
• Assessing the effectiveness and efficiency of IT departments
• Selecting and implementing automated library information systems.

Joe’s many clients include academic, public, and special libraries as well as library consortium, state library agencies and library boards. Joe has taught a wide variety of workshops and has spoken at numerous library association meetings.