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- Title
The Value Proposition of the Corporate Library, Past and Present.
- Authors
Black, Alistair; Gabb, Henry
- 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.
- Subjects
CORPORATE libraries; 20TH century technological innovations; INDUSTRIAL research; HISTORY of corporations; CORPORATIONS; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY; PLANNING; HISTORY of libraries
- Publication
Information & Culture, 2016, Vol 51, Issue 2, p192
- ISSN
2164-8034
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7560/IC51203