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Learn why special or corporate libraries must align with their parent organizations in order to survive in these difficult economic times--and how to foster and demonstrate this critical relationship.

Special Libraries: A Survival Guide analyzes what has happened--and is still continuing to happen--to corporate libraries in order to identify the strategies that must be taken to protect their staff's survival. Through a careful examination of a series of case studies of corporate library reductions and closures, authors James M. Matarazzo and Toby Pearlstein suggest key strategies, tactics, and survival tools that all types of special library managers can use to minimize their chances of becoming a victim. The book underscores the importance of collecting data as a survival tool. Additionally, it identifies what needs to be taught to students currently enrolled in library and information science (LIS) programs to give them a leg up in careers.

This advocacy book is essential reading for staff at special/corporate libraries in the English-speaking world who wish to retain their positions, but it also contains information applicable to today's academic, public, and even school libraries. It is appropriate for students in the field of library and information science, LIS faculty, and corporate executives responsible for the management of the information function.

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• Foreword(p. ix)
• Introduction(p. xi)
• Part I You Are What You Measure: The Importance of Data as a Survival Tool(p. 1)
• Introduction(p. 1)
• 1 Corporate Score: Marrying Two Expert Tools Will Help You Sustain Your Corporate Library(p. 3)
• 2 Case Study: The AT&T Bell Laboratories Library Network(p. 7)
• 3 Preface: The Glass Is Half Full(p. 17)
• A Review of Research Related to the Management of Corporate Libraries(p. 24)
• Part II Strategies and Tactics for Survival(p. 43)
• Introduction(p. 43)
• 4 Staying Afloat in Turbulent Waters(p. 45)
• Afterword: News Libraries: An Update(p. 63)
• 5 Corporate Libraries: A Soft Analysis and a Warning(p. 67)
• Companion Essay: A Warning from the UK(p. 72)
• 6 Alternate Sourcing: A Critical Component of Your Survival Toolkit(p. 75)
• 7 Resuscitated: The EPA Libraries' Near-Death Experience(p. 85)
• Afterword Redux: EPA Libraries at 40-Looking Toward a Bright Future(p. 91)
• 8 Educating Special Librarians: "The Past Is Prologue"(p. 93)
• 9 Educating Special Librarians: In Search of a Model(p. 103)
• 10 Scenario Planning as Preventive Medicine(p. 113)
• 11 Professional Association Membership as a Survival Tool(p. 121)
• 12 Corporate Library Survival outside the United States: Lessons from New Zealand and Australia(p. 129)
• Part III So What Does Your Manager Think?(p. 149)
• Introduction(p. 149)
• Companion Essay: Investment Management, Buy-Side Research, and the Information Professional(p. 149)
• 13 What the Library Has to Do to Be Successful(p. 155)
• 14 Information Services at Bain & Co., Inc.: Adding Value to the Future of the Firm(p. 157)
• 15 Putnam Investments Corporate Library(p. 161)
• Index(p. 165)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

James M. Matarazzo, PhD, is dean and professor emeritus at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College, Boston, MA. His previous books include Closing the Corporate Library: Case Studies on the Decision-making Process; Corporate Library Excellence; and Knowledge and Special Libraries. He holds a doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh School of Information.
Toby Pearlstein, PhD, is retired director of global information services for Bain Company, Inc., a strategic management consulting firm. She recently coauthored a series of articles in Searcher magazine on survival skills for information professionals. Pearlstein holds a doctorate from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College.