James M. Matarazzo Ph. D., Toby Pearlstein

Special Libraries (eBook, ePUB)

A Survival Guide

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216147794
• Artikelnr.: 68342579

Autorenporträt

James M. Matarazzo, PhD, is dean and professor emeritus at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College, Boston, MA.

Toby Pearlstein, PhD, is retired director of global information services for Bain & Company, Inc., a strategic management consulting firm.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Sylvia James Introduction Barbara Quint PART I YOU ARE WHAT YOU
MEASURE: THE IMPORTANCE OF DATA AS A SURVIVAL TOOL Introduction James M.
Matarazzo and Toby Pearlstein 1 Corporate Score: Marrying Two Expert Tools
Will Help You Sustain Your Corporate Library James M. Matarazzo and Toby
Pearlstein 2 Case Study: The AT&T Bell Laboratories Library Network Donald
T. Hawkins 3 Preface: The Glass Is Half Full A Review of Research Related
to the Management of Corporate Libraries James M. Matarazzo and Toby
Pearlstein PART II STRATEGIES AND TACTICS FOR SURVIVAL Introduction James
M. Matarazzo and Toby Pearlstein 4 Staying Afloat in Turbulent Waters
James M. Matarazzo and Toby Pearlstein With Lynne Palombo, Leigh
Montgomery, and Elaine Raines Afterword: News Libraries: An Update Leigh
Montgomery 5 Corporate Libraries: A Soft Analysis and a Warning James M.
Matarazzo and Toby Pearlstein Companion Essay: A Warning from the UK
Sylvia James 6 Alternate Sourcing: A Critical Component of Your Survival
Toolkit James M. Matarazzo and Toby Pearlstein 7 Resuscitated: The EPA
Libraries' Near-Death Experience James M. Matarazzo and Toby Pearlstein
Afterword Redux: EPA Libraries at 40-Looking Toward a Bright Future
Deborah Balsamo 8 Educating Special Librarians: "The Past Is Prologue"
James M. Matarazzo and Toby Pearlstein 9 Educating Special Librarians: In
Search of a Model James M. Matarazzo and Toby Pearlstein 10 Scenario
Planning as Preventive Medicine James M. Matarazzo and Toby Pearlstein 11
Professional Association Membership as a Survival Tool Sylvia James 12
Corporate Library Survival outside the United States: Lessons from New
Zealand and Australia Gillian Ralph and Julie Sibthorpe PART III SO WHAT
DOES YOUR MANAGER THINK? Introduction James M. Matarazzo and Toby
Pearlstein Companion Essay: Investment Management, Buy-Side Research, and
the Information Professional Sylvia James 13 What the Library Has to Do to
Be Successful Chuck Pickelhaupt 14 Information Services at Bain & Co.,
Inc.: Adding Value to the Future of the Firm Michael Zimmerman Interviews
Steven Tallman 15 Putnam Investments Corporate Library Patrick O'Donnell
Index