Special Library
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Special Library
Includes libraries maintained by an organization, as a business, association, or government agency, to collect materials and provide information of special relevance to the work of the organization[2].
Essentially, special libraries are highly specific collections of reference materials for the use of organizations of persons. The divisions indicate what field the collection of resources is based in and tailored for.
SLA Recognized Divisions of Special Libraries
The following is a list of divisions under the broad umbrella term "special libraries." There are many subdivisions beneath these, and those likely have their own subdivisions as "special library" is a loose term[3].
- Academic
- Advertising and Marketing
- Biomedical and Life Sciences
- Business and Finance
- Chemistry
- Competitive Intelligence
- Education
- Engineering
- Environment and Resource Management
- Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition
- Government Information
- Information Technology
- Insurance and Employee Benefits
- Knowledge Management
- Leadership and Management Division
- Legal
- Military Libraries
- Museums, Arts, and Humanities
- News
- Petroleum and Energy Resources
- Pharmaceutical and Energy Resources
- Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics
- Science-Technology
- Social Science
- Solo Librarians
- Taxonomy
- Transportation
