"This highly informative book is complete with a table of contents and index. Solo librarians should buy this book...as this collection will prepare them to meet just about any challenge encountered in a one-person library."— Vol. 25, No. 4 (Winter 2006), MEDICAL REFERENCE SERVICES QUARTERLY

The Essential OPL: 1998-2004 gives you the very best of The One-Person Library: A Newsletter for Librarians and Management. It covers the first seven years of OPL under the editorial direction of Judith Siess. If you work in a library as the only person or professional, you will find simple, practical, and low-cost ideas to provide outstanding service to your clients, impress your management with your value to the organization, and make your life easier. Included are articles on advocacy, finances, change management, planning or moving a library, technology, time management and prioritization, networking, collection development, reference, knowledge management, quick tips, pithy quotes, and some of Siess's "Thinking About..." editorials. In short, it is "everything you ever wanted to know about one-person librarianship, but didn't know where to look."

Judith Siess is the publisher and editor of The One-Person Library: A Newsletter for Librarians and Management. She served as the first chair of the Solo Librarians Division of the Special Library Association. She is the author of four other titles, including Time Management, Planning and Prioritization for Librarians (Scarecrow, 2002).

Jonathan Lorig is the digital librarian at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. He guides the development of a digital image repository for GSFC engineers and scientists.