Special Libraries: A Survival Guide
• Presents case studies of corporate and other special library reductions and closures and provides strategies to minimize your chances of becoming a victim• Demonstrates how to integrate your information services and skills with essential functions of your parent organization• Underscores the critical nature of documenting your contribution to your parent organization's mission• Provides a useful predictive model to assess if your library is in danger of being severely cut back or closed outright• Makes comparisons of corporate libraries in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand"Readers will gain insight into closure avoidance strategies by digesting the content of this well-written, straightforward book. The writers do emphasize special libraries, but the strategies and models could easily be adapted to academic and public library situations. The book is highly recommended for special/corporate libraries and academic libraries that support schools of library and information science."-ARBA"The book constitutes a master class in planning for specialized information services. It is a must-read for special librarians concerned about their professional futures and is equally relevant for educators charged with developing competencies in library students. I highly recommend that library science educators include the book in their curricula, and I urge every special librarian to treat the book as a daily companion. We owe Matarazzo and Pearlstein a huge gratitude for having 'pulled it all together' for us"-Information Outlook