SPECIAL LIBRARIES BIBLIOGRAPHY

Prepared by Patti Baker, Emily Derr, Moriah Miller, Toby Smrekar, and Lauri Steffy

AALL. (2003). American Association of Law Libraries. Retrieved October 9, 2003 from http://www.aallnet.org/ (This is not a scholarly source)

-This is the online source of the AALL promoting and enhancing the value of law libraries, fostering the profession of law librarianship, and providing leadership in the field of legal information. Updated information on meetings jobs and press releases are at your fingertips.

ALA (2003). American Library Association. Retrieved October 9, 2003 from http://www.ala.org/ (Not a scholarly source)

-This is not a scholarly source but provides many facts on library statistics such as job opportunities, pay, and more. It is a website that all librarians and future librarians can turn to when they need to find information on certain topics as well.

ARLIS. (2003). Art Libraries Society of North America. Retrieved November 8, 2003, from http://www.arlisna.org/ (Not a scholarly source)

- Not a scholarly source, but this web site gave information on current art libraries, where to find job, and what an art library is. It gave information on the society and upcoming events.

Asantewa, D. (1992). Strategic planning for special libraries. Washington, D.C.: Special Libraries Association.

-A guide on how to run a special library that includes how to get it started, surveying, having strategic paths, budgeting, and managing. It gives examples in the back of a strategic plan for a special library. It is used to show how a special library is planned.

Astall, R. (1966). Special libraries and information bureaux: An examination guidebook. London: Clive Bingley.

- This book provided information on special libraries in general. It gave a brief history and development, information on staffing and type of special libraries.

Batten, W. (Ed.). (1975). Handbook of Special Librarianship and

Information Work (4th ed.). London: Billing and Sons.

-This book is a compilation of articles about the planning, construction, collection management, cataloging, and operation of special libraries. There is a significant amount of technical information, including physical design plans. Discusses how to plan a special library. At the end it has an index on where to find things making it easier for special librarians when having issues.

Beck, P. AALL directory and handbook. (1999). Chicago: Commerce Clearing House.

-This book is a directory of law libraries. Includes alphabetical listing of all AALL members, locator by alphabetical listing, Geographical – US listing along with the bylaws of the American Association of Law Libraries.

Bradley, C.J. (1990). American music librarianship: A biographical and historical survey. New York: Greenwood Press.

-Discusses how to build collections, classify, and catalog a music library. It also notes colleagues and many things within the Music Library Association up to 1981. It also includes tables and exhibits dealing with music libraries.

Broxis, P. F. (1968). Organizing the arts. Hamden, CT: Archon Books.

- This book provides information on how the catalog of an art museum is organized. It also provided information on the history and use of art libraries.

Bryant, E.T. (1985). Music librarianship: A practical guide. (2nd ed.). Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, Inc.

-Discusses music library administration, reference books, periodicals, volunteers, skills, and attitudes of the music library. It gives an overview of music librarianship.

CSLA. (2003) Church and Synagogue Library Association. Retrieved October 8, 2003 from http://www.worldaccessnet.com/~csla/ (Not a scholarly source)

-This is not a scholarly source but provides information on the organization and jobs within religious libraries. It also lists salaries and other information that could be helpful to future religious librarians.

Cohen, L. B. (Eds.). (1997). Reference services for archives and manuscripts. New York: Haworth Press.

-This book is reference tool for archives and manuscripts. Including topics as public services education of archivist, what it is like to be a reference chair and some problems faced by providers of information as well as reference services for electronic records in archives. Addressed is the unique purpose of archival institutions and the need to preserve records.

Cook, M. (1986). The management of information from archives. England: Gower.

-This book is a reference manual for archival management, services, and description, arrangement as well as user services. A list of abbreviations is provided at the beginning of the book. This book explains what archives are, office automation, and what is needed for administration control.

Cook, M., Procter, M. (1989). A MAD user guide: How to set about listing archives: A short explanatory guide to the recommendations of the manual of archival description. England: Gower. (Not a scholarly source)

-This is not a scholarly source, however used because of the step-by-step process involved with Archives. This book is a short explanatory guide of the rules and recommendations. This is a short step-by-step process of MAD. Not a complete listing of the rules. Explains how levels fit together. The guide includes illustration and examples.

Ezell, M. Anderson, J. (1988). The media library in a church. Nashville, TN: Convention Press.

-Discusses the church libraries purposes such as history, present, and future. Also discusses the services, organization, materials, and finances. Also mentioned location of where a church library could be and the furniture. Lastly it discusses the support the church library gets.

Griffiths, J-M. King, D.W. (1993). Special libraries: Increasing the information edge. Washington, D.C.: Special Libraries Association.

-Discusses the information age and other trends in special libraries. It also provides many tables and figures. This book helps explain what is happening with special libraries with the technology age and what will go on in the future.

Griscom, R. (2000). Music librarianship at the turn of the century. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, Inc.

-Discusses collection development, preservation, cataloging, technology, copyright, references, and more within music librarianship. It also looks over the education that is needed to be a music librarian.

Hanson, C. (Ed.). (1991). Librarian at large: selected writings of John

Cotton Dana. Washington, D.C.: Special Libraries Association. (Not a

scholarly source)

-This is not a scholarly source it is an article available on the SLA web site that has a brief history of the modern special library and a summary of the social changes that have affected it.

Harvey, J.F. (Eds.) (1980). Church and synagogue libraries. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, Inc.

-Discusses history of religious libraries and where they can be found. It gets into the different types of religious libraries such a Jewish, Catholic, Protestant, and other Christian libraries. Lastly it describes the religious library associations religious librarians can join.

Hryciw-Wing, C. (1995). “Organization of Materials in Business Libraries,” In B. Schlessinger (Ed.), The Basic Business Library: Core Resources (3rd ed.): 283-314. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx.

-This book talks about professionalism by being organized within business libraries. It provides management techniques for future business librarians. This source is

used to describe these skills within business libraries.

Irvine, B. J. (1991). Facility standards for art libraries and visual resources collections. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited.

- This book provided information on how an art library can be set up and organized. It gave the standards for art libraries and visual resource collections.

Jackson, E.B. (Eds.). (1980). Special librarianship: A new reader. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press.

-Provides a look at the past, present and future of special libraries. It also looks into special libraries managing system, organization, and public relations. It describes at the end why special libraries are useful.

Jain, H.C. (1972). Law library administration and reference. New Delhi, Delhi-6: Metropolitan Book Co. (P). LTD.

-This book addresses the Indian Law Institute and the authors experience tackling the problems faced. It makes suggestions on foreign materials selections. It provides topics such as planning a building, staffing, acquisition of material to binding, and lending services.

Johns, A.W. (1968). Special libraries: Development of the concept, their organizations, and their services. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press.

-Talks about special library development in the United States, Britain, and Australia. With each country it describes its type of special library service with the different kinds of special libraries. It also provides many resources for special librarians.

Johnson, H. (1999). How to Use the Business Library (5th ed.). Cincinnati:

Southwestern Publishing.

-This book is mostly composed of annotated lists of resources and publications collected by various types of business libraries such as directories, government publications, periodicals, and research reports. Each different type of resource is accompanied by general guidelines for collecting and managing that sort of resource.

Kellerman, F. (1997). Introduction to Health Sciences Librarianship: A Management Handbook. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

-A complete guide to the management, development, and the use of the Medical Library. This was used for information on the users of the medical library.

Kesner, R. M. (1984). Automation for archivists and records managers: Planning and implementation strategies. Chicago: American Library Association.

-This book addresses history of archives and the changing times along with the need to change the methods of storage for these materials. Decision-making models and development strategies guides and recommendations examples are provided and can be tailored to your needs.

LaGuardia, C. Katz, B. Katz, L.S. (2002). Magazines for libraries (11th ed.). New Providence, NJ: Bowker.

-This book is an excellent source for reviewing the best publications for all serials collections since 1969. The law area starts on page 912.

Lerner, F. (2002). The story of libraries: From the invention of writing to the computer age. New York: Continuum. Chp. 12, 168-183.

-Discusses the history of special libraries. It also describes the different types of special libraries and collections. It emphasizes “grey literature” that is collected more in special libraries than other libraries. It the main book for the discussion of special libraries.

Library Association Industrial Group. (1986). Industrial and Commercial Libraries: an Introductory Guide. London: Library Association Publishing.

-This is an informational pamphlet that provides a useful overview and discussion of the purpose and function of industrial and commercial libraries. The information provided is mainly intended for librarians working in business libraries that are part of a private corporation. It discusses such things as the relationship between the library and the parent organization, the best ways to serve the information needs of the constituency, preparing a budget, and the physical construction of the library itself.

Miller, J. (2000) Sears list of subject headings. (17th ed.). New York: H.W. Wilson. (This is not a scholarly source)

-This is not a scholarly source, but the book has subject headings which branch off from the topics discussed especially within music and religious libraries.

MLA. (2003). Medical Librarianship: A Career Beyond Cutting Edge. Chicago: Medical Library Association. Retrieved October 8, 2003, from www.mla.org (This is not a scholarly source)

-This is not a scholarly source. Since the Medical Library Association is a professional organization this was used for current information on the education needed, job opportunities, and the salary for an individual entering the field of medical librarianship.

Mount, E. (1991). Special libraries and information centers: An introductory text. Washington, D.C.: Special Libraries Association.

-Discusses the nature, information, and management of special libraries. It also mentions services, collections, equipment, and relationships with other organizations. This book was used as a reference to some organizations.

Moys, E.M. (Eds.). (1987). Manual of law librarianship. (2nded.). Boston, MA: G.K. Hall.

-This book is a general reference source for law librarians and includes a section on law library practice (page 595). It includes other relevant material such as information services. It addresses such topics as automated legal research, search strategies, acquisitions and storage as well as cataloguing and classification.

Music Library Assoc. (2003). Music Library Association. Middleton, WI: Music Library Association. Retrieved October 8, 2003 from http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/ (This is not a scholarly source)

-This is not a scholarly source, but a website. This link provides many resources for Music Librarians. It is a way for group members to find jobs, have meetings, etc. all for the purpose of music libraries.

National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum. (2001). Welcome to the National Art Library. Retrieved October 26, 2003, from http://www.nal.vam.ac.uk/ (Not a scholarly source)

- This is not a scholarly source, but this web site gave current information on how art libraries are run. It gave details on their programs, collection and staff.

National Film Preservation Foundation. (n.d.). About the NFPF. Retrieved October 26, 2003, from http://www.filmpreservation.org/ (Not a scholarly source)

- This is not a scholarly source, but it is a web site that provides a lot of information in the preservation of films. It also listed many references and sources.

Public Moving Image Archives and Research Centers. (2003). Public Moving Image Archives and Research Centers. Retrieved October 27, 2003 from http://lcweb.loc.gov/film/arch.html (Not a scholarly source)

- This is not a scholarly source, but this web site discussed the legislation that created the National Film Preservation Foundation. It also listed many film archives from around the world.

Scheer, G.E. (1973). The church library: tips and tools. St. Louis, MS: Bethany Press.

-Discusses mainly how to start a church library from scratch. It does this by discussing background information, positions, and things needed within the library. To prepare the library there has to be finances and collection development procedures. To get the library going there has to be some kind of classification system. To preserve materials there has to be some kind of care for the collection. The library has to accessible to the patron with information that is needed for that specific church library. All of this can be done with the help from groups and attending conferences. This also includes sources, library supplies and equipment companies, and denominational services to libraries.

Schlessinger, B. (Ed.). (1995). The Basic Business Library: Core Resources

(3rd ed.). Phoenix, AZ: Oryx.

-This book is mostly composed of lists of important resources and publications that various types of business libraries collect. The resources are annotated, and many also have publisher information and prices (from 1995). There are also articles that discuss the function of the reference services in business libraries, the acquisition and organization of materials, and the continuing training of library staff. The book includes an index. This is an excellent resource, with the drawback that it has not been revised since the 1995 edition.

Sheehy, C. (Ed.). (1996). Managing Business Collections in Libraries.

Westprot, CT: Greenwood Press.

-This publication discusses the management of collections of business-related materials by a public or university library. It discusses many different aspects of managing a business collection, such as personnel, budge, acquisition and collection development, electronic resources, technical services, reference services, and the future of business collections in the public domain.

Shipman, J. Homan, M. (2003). Medicine's Library Lifeline. Library Journal, 128, 49-50. (This is not a scholarly source)

-This is not a scholarly source. It was used because of information on a possible upcoming trend in medical librarianship; the "informationist."

SLA. (2003). Special Libraries Association. Washington, D.C.: Special Libraries Association. Revived October 8, 2003 from

http://www.sla.org/ (This is not a scholarly source)

-This is not a scholarly source, but a web site that provides many links for special librarians. These links provide job openings, tips, information, group meetings, and more about special libraries.

UCLA Film and Television Archive. (2003). UCLA Film and Television Archive. Retrieved October 27, 2003 from http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/about/aboutus.html (This is not a scholarly source)

This is not a scholarly source, it is a website of the film library at UCLA. It provided current information about film libraries and how they are run.

U.S. Department of Labor. (2003). Occupational Outlook Handbook.

Retrieved October 27, 2003 from

http://stats.bls.gov/oco/home.htm (This is not a scholarly source)

-This is not a scholarly source but was used to show job statistics with the type of librarians especially in the area of business librarian. It discusses certain jobs,

what is involved with the job and salary of the job.

White, H. S. (1984). Managing the special library: Strategies for success within the larger organization. White Plains, NY: Knowledge Industry Publications, Inc.

-Discusses development of special libraries within its purpose and objectives, standards, professionalism, salaries, distributing, services, technology, budget, management, technical services, support, and staffing. A big emphasis is put on at the end for the future for special libraries.

Wood, S. (1994). Reference and Information Services in Health Sciences Libraries: Current Practice in Health Sciences Librarianship. Metuchen, NJ: Medical Library Association and Scarecrow Press.

-This source is a general introduction to the field of medical librarianship. This was used for information on the current practices in the medical library.

Updated December 1, 2003