Special Libraries: Putting Knowledge To Work
Date
1976-07
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Walter Thompson .Co
Abstract
ALTHOUGH THE TERM special library embraces specialized libraries and specialized collections of many types, the
strength and vigor of the special library movement have come from
the libraries serving business, industry, and government. These new
forms of special libraries, founded as working collections to provide
efficient information service, emerged in the first decades of the
twentieth century as a vigorous new movement, sharply differentiated from both the mainstream of librarianship at the time and from
special libraries of earlier years. In 1928, Frederick Austin Ogg wrote,
“The growth of special libraries is the outstanding feature of library
history in the past twenty years.”! This statement was reaffirmyears later by Jesse Shera, who characterized the twentieth the era of special libraries and specialized services.*
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Professional association and government department libraries
which served as on-the-spot working collections were most directly
related to today’s special libraries.
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Keywords
library and information science