Abstract
Corporate libraries of the kind we would recognize today began to appear around the turn of the twentieth century. They were a response to a rapidly changing corporate and commercial environment, acting as adjuncts to both the rise of systematic industrial research and the office management revolution that accompanied the implementation of scientific management. A survey of American corporate libraries in 1916 by the British manufacturer Rowntree and Company provides a snapshot of their operations and perceived value. The survey was repeated with a selection of today's corporate librarians. Their responses are strikingly similar to those of their early twentieth-century counterparts, despite intervening technological change. As it was a century ago, the value of the corporate library, even if it cannot be quantified, is accepted.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 192-225 |
Number of pages | 34 |
Journal | Information & Culture |
Volume | 51 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2016 |
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Jesse H. Shera Award for Distinguished Published Research
Black, Alistair Matthew (Recipient), 2017
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