Procedural Guide to Automating an Art Library, edited by Patricia J. Barnett and Amy E. Lucker. Tucson, Arizona: ARLIS/NA, 1987. 40p. (Occasional Papers of the Art Libraries Society of North America no. 7). ISBN 0-942740-06-8. $15.00.

The observant reader may feel at this point that structured procrastination requires a certain amount of self-deception, because one is in effect constantly perpetrating a pyramid scheme on oneself. Exactly. One needs to be able to recognize and commit oneself to tasks with inflated importance and unreal deadlines, while making oneself feel that these tasks are important and urgent. This is not a problem, because virtually all procrastinators have excellent self-deception skills. And what could be more noble than using one character flaw to offset the negative effects of another?