Books
- 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.
Table of Contents and Excerpt - 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 OPL Sourcebook : A Guide for Solo and Small Libraries by Judith A. Siess. Information Today, Inc., c. 2001.
- 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.
- American Library Directory 2004-2005 , 57th ed. New York: Bowker, 2004.
- Directory of Special Libraries and Information Centers. 27th ed. Detroit: Gale Research, 2002.
- Subject Directory of Special Libraries. 26th ed. Detroit: Gale Research, 2002.
- Directory of Library and Information Professionals. 2nd ed. Primary Source Media, 1999.
- Who's Who in Special Libraries Online (Directory of SLA members - password required)
Serial Publications
- Information Outlook
- Corporate Library Update
- Information Today
- Marketing Library Services
- Business and Legal Information Alerts
- KMWorld
- Searcher
- ONLINE
- EContent
- Intranets: Enterprise Strategies and Solutions
- Competia Magazine
- One Person Library Newsletter
- 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
- American Society for Information Science and Technology
- American Association of Law Libraries
- 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
- Medical Library Association
- Music Library Association
- Theatre Library Association
- Special Interest/Topic Divisions of the Special Libraries Association
- American Society of Indexers
- 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
(including a sample of content providers/resellers)
- Outsell, Inc
- FIND/SVP
- NERAC
- Washington Researchers
- Marketing Base
- Dialog
- Factiva
- Lexis-Nexis
- Ebsco
- ProQuest Inc
- Swets Information Services
- Thomson Corporation (a.k.a. the 800-pound Gorilla)
Outsourcing/Recruiting/Employment Firms
- Advanced Information Management
- C. Berger Group
- F1 Services, Inc.
- Heller & Associates
- InfoCurrent
- Library Associates
- TFPL
- International Jobs and Career Planning for Information Professionals
- Job Banks for Information Professional Outside the United States
- Special Library Job Postings on the Internet
Conferences
- Special Libraries Association 2005 Annual Conference (Toronto)
- Internet Librarian (2004, Monterey)
- Information Architecture (2004, Paris)
- KMWorld & Intranets (2004, Santa Clara)
- Virtual Reference Desk (2004, Cincinnati)
- Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (2004, Tucson)
- SIIA Information Industry Summit (2005, New York)
- ASIDIC-Association of Information and Dissemination Centers (2004, Phoenix)
- Computers in Libraries (2005, Washington D.C.)
- IMLS - Institute of Library and Museum Services sponsored conferences
- The Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies (2004, Boston)
- IRMA - Information Resources Management Association Annual Conference (2005, San Diego)
- IFLA - International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions World Library and Information Conference (2005, Oslo)
- ISKO - International Society for Knowledge Organization (2004, London)
- EAHIL - European Association for Health Information and Libraries conferences
- SCIP - Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (2005, Chicago)
- Portals, Collaboration and Content Management (2004, Orlando)
- Enterprise Search Summit (2004, New York)
- NFAIS Annual Conference (2005, Philadelphia)
- Buying and Selling eContent (2005, Scottsdale)
- Streaming Media West (2004, Santa Clara)
Other Items of Interest
- Special Libraries Association Vision, Mission and Core Values Statements
- Competencies for Special Librarians in the 21st Century Revised 2003)
- A History of the Special Libraries Association
- 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
- Marketing libraries (on and off the web)
- Job title generator for library and information science professionals
- For management issues related to non-profit organizations - The Management Assistance Program for Non-Profits (MAP)
- Case Studies on the Microsoft Knowledge Network Group's news implementation on their library portal: Moreover and Factiva
- The Outsourcing Institute
- Disaster recovery presentations - page down to March 13, 2002 meeting description