resources:
Books
Serial Publications
Professional Associations
Commercial Associations
Outsourcing/Recruiting/Employment Firms
Conferences
Other items of interest
books:
Rethinking Information Work - A Career Guide for Librarians and Other Information Professionals by G. Kim Dority. Libraries Unlimited, c. 2006.
Knowledge and Special Libraries, edited by James M. Matarazzo & Suzanne D. Connolly. From the series Resources for the Knowledge-Based Economy. Boston MA: Butterworth Heinemann, c. 1999, 2006 (Audiobook).
Special Libraries and Information Centers: An Introductory Text, by Ellis Mount and Renee Massoud. Fourth Edition. Washington DC: Special Libraries Association, c. 1999.
Special Libraries: A Guide for Management, by Cathy A. Porter, et. al. Fourth Edition. Washington, DC: Special Libraries Association, c. 1997.
The New OPL Sourcebook: A Guide for Solo and Small Libraries by Judith A. Siess. Information Today, Inc., c. 2006.
The Accidental Systems Librarian by Rachel Singer Gordon. Information Today, Inc., c. 2003.
The Accidental Webmaster by Julie M. Still. Information Today, Inc., c. 2003.
Law Librarianship in the 21st Century by Roy Balleste, Sonia Luna-Lamas and Lisa Smith-Butler. Scarecrow Press, 2006. Publisher site information.
American Library Directory 2007-2008 60th ed. Information Today, 2007.
Directory of Special Libraries and Information Centers. 34th ed. Gale Cengage Learning, 2007. (35th edition to be published July 2008)
Subject Directory of Special Libraries. 34th ed. Gale Cengage Learning, 2007. (25th edition to be published July 2008)
Who's Who in Special Libraries Online (Directory of SLA members - password required)
serial publications:
Information Outlook
Information Today
Marketing Library Services
Business and Legal Information Alerts
KMWorld
Searcher
ONLINE
EContent
Intranets: Enterprise Strategies and Solutions
Inside Knowledge Magazine
One Person Library Newsletter
SMR International E-Profiles
LLRX.Com: Law Library Resource Exchange
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
professional associations:
Special Libraries Association
Pacific Northwest Chapter, Special Libraries Association
Oregon Chapter, Special Libraries Association
Special Interest/Topic Divisions of the Special Libraries Association
American Association of Law Libraries (National Site)
American Association of Law Libraries (Western Pacific Site)
Law Librarians of Puget Sound
American Indian Library Association
American Theological Library Association
Atmospheric Sciences Librarians International
Art Libraries Society of North America
Association for Population/Family Planning Libraries and Information Centers International
Association of Jewish Libraries
Chinese American Librarians Association
Medical Library Association
Washington Medical Librarians Association
Music Library Association
Theatre Library Association
American Society for Information Science and Technology
American Society for Indexing (National Site)
Pacific Northwest Chapter American Society for Indexing
Association of Independent Information Professionals
AIIM International, The Enterprise Content Management Association
Society of American Archivists
Society for Competitive Intelligence Professionals
Puget Sound Business Intelligence Group
The Software and Information Industry Association
commercial associations:
Outsell, Inc
Guideline
Marketing Base
NERAC
Dialog
Factiva
Lexis-Nexis
Moreover
Ebsco
Gale Cengage Learning
ProQuest Inc
Swets Information Services
Thomson Corporation
outsourcing, recruiting & employment firms:
AIM Library & Information Staffing
C. Berger Group
Echo Services
F1 Services, Inc.
Filco Legal Library Staffing
Heller & Associates
InfoCurrent
Library Associates
TFPL
SLA-PNW Employment Resources
LIS Career Development Center
Job Banks for Information Professional Outside the United States
The Networked Librarian: Employment Resources for Librarians
Special Library Job Postings on the Internet
conferences:
Special Libraries Association 2008 (Seattle)
AALL Annual Meeting 2008 (Portland)
AAIP Annual Conference 2008 (Pittsburgh)
ARLIS/NA 2008 - Art Libraries Society of North America (Denver)
ASIS&T Annual Meeting (2008 site is not live yet)
Buying and Selling eContent 2008 (Scottsdale, AZ)
Computers in Libraries 2008 (Arlington, VA.)
Enterprise Search Summit 2008 (New York)
Information Architecture Summit 2008 (Miami)
ii2007 -Information Intelligence Summit (Scottsdale, AZ)
Internet Librarian 2008 (Monterey, CA)
IMLS sponsored conferences - Institute of Library and Museum Services
MLA 2008 (Chicago)
MLA (Western Chapters) 2008 (Seattle)
KM World & Intranets 2008 (San Jose)
SAA Annual Meeting 2008 - Society of American Archivists (San Francisco)
Taxonomy Boot Camp 2008 (San Jose)
SCIP 2008 - Society of Competitive Information Professionals (San Diego)
ASIDIC Spring Meeting 2008 - Assn of Information and Dissemination Centers (Las Vegas)
ASIS&T PNW Annual Meeting 2006 (Seattle)
Infox Showcase 2005 (New York)
Online Northwest 2008 (Corvallis, OR)
SIAA Information Industry Summit 2008 (New York)
SLA Northwest Regional Conference (Vancouver, BC)
other items of interest:
Special Libraries FAQ from the Special Libraries Association (SLA)
Vision, Mission and Core Values Statements
Competencies for Special Librarians in the 21st Century (Revised 2003)
A History of the Special Libraries Association
SLA Information Portals (requires account log-in)
Starting and Managing an Information Center bibliography (SLA Info Portal; SLA log-in required)
Starting a Special Library from Scratch (Ginger Roth, 2002, University of South Carolina class project)
You Don't Look Like a Librarian! Librarians' views of public perception in the Internet Age (Ruth Kneale, SLA, June 2002)
Opportunity in the Air. Facing sweeping change, information professionals blaze new career paths (Library Journal, 7/15/2003)
Factiva's InfoPro Resource Center (tools for success as information professionals)
Dialog's Quantum2 leadership development program
Library Technology Guides
The Outsourcing Institute
Disaster recovery presentations - page down to March 13, 2002 meeting description
For management issues related to non-profit organizations: Free Management Library for Non-Profits (MAP) Stephen Abrams's blog
marketing resources
Marketing libraries (on and off the web)
Marketing bibliography
MarketingProfs
Shake Up the Marketing Toybox! (presentation slides)
copyright resources:
Campus Copyright: Rights and Responsibilities
Stanford University Libraries Copyright & Fair Use Center
Special Libraries Association Information Portal on Copyright (SLA log-in required)
Copyright Clearance Center's Copyright.com
Copyright Clearance Center's A Practical Guide to Copyright Compliance for Business Professionals
Duke University's Center for the Study of the Public Domain's comic bookTales from the Public Domain: Bound by Law?
sample case studies, white papers and reports:
Factiva
Outsell
Congressional Research Service (report on closing/restructuring EPA libraries)