Setting up a Library: Special and Office Library
ALA Library Fact Sheet 16c
Resources on setting up a small special library, including medical libraries, corporate libraries, and one person libraries.
- Building & Running a Small Resource Center: A ToolkitA very useful step-by-step guide to setting up a small resource center/library that was created by the Alzheimer's Association Benjamin B. Green-Field National Library and Resource Center. This toolkit was created to help set up Alzheimer's resource centers, but it has valuable information for many different types of small special libraries.
- Special Libraries Association (SLA)The SLA provides comprehensive information on establishing and administering special libraries.
- Divisions of the Special Library AssociationThe Special Library Association has divisions that cover many different types of special libraries, including scientific, technical, environmental, and more.
- Special Library Association ChaptersList of Special Library Association chapters by region
- Librarians as Knowledge Builders: Strategic Partnering for Service and AdvocacyKreitz, Patricia A. College & Research Libraries News. vol. 65, no. 1 (January 2004)
Nuckolls, Karen A. " Change in a Small Law Library: How We Moved Our Department into the 21st Century." Information Outlook 9, no. 4 (April 2005): 23-24.
Stuhlman, Daniel. "Think Like a Business, Act Like a Library: Library Public Relations." Information Outlook 7, no. 9 (September 2003).
- List of Library Cataloging Software from the Church and Synagogue Library Association [Archived as of August 2017]The Church and Synagogue Library Association has compiled a list of cataloging software designed to be used by smaller libraries.
Medical Library, Health Science Library
- Medical Library AssociationThe Medical Library Association (MLA) is a membership organization that supports the needs of health sciences librarians.
- Innovation and Survival: A Case Study in Planning Medical Library ServicesRashid, Shahida and Taodhg Burns. Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 86, no. 4 (October 1998): 508-517.
- How to Establish a Successful Health Information Library in CommunityWillard, Carolyn. Presented at the 65th IFLA Council and General Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, 1999.
Law Library
- American Association of Law LibrariesThe American Association of Law Libraries advances the profession of law librarianship and supports the professional growth of its members through leadership and advocacy in the field of legal information and information policy.
Office or Small Corporate Library
One Person Library
- Special Library Association Solo Librarians DivisionSLA provides resources for the one-person library, or OPL, that make up a great many special and corporate libraries.
Siess, Judith A. The New OPL Sourcebook: A Guide for Solo and Small Libraries. Medford, N.J: Information Today, 2006.
Siess, Judith A., and Jonathan Lorig. The Essential OPL, 1998-2004: The Best of Seven Years of the One-Person Library, a Newsletter for Librarians and Management. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 2005.
Smallwood, Carol, and Melissa J. Clapp. How to Thrive as a Solo Librarian. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 2012.