Publication Details

Title	Special Libraries
Authors	Samagalski A
Year	1993
Type	Conference Paper
Abstract	Special libraries, as the name implies, are libraries devoted to a single or narrow range of subjects. They usually support a research institute, a government department, private company or some other organisation with a specific purpose or area of interest. That amounts to some 1200 Special Libraries throughout Australia. They range from large government libraries such as the Department of Transport and Communications in Canberra, to the highly specialised Special Libraries - which go to show that if you want to know about something there's likely to be a library devoted to it. These include the libraries of the Cave Exploration Group of South Australia, the Cement and Concrete Association of Australia, the Arid Zone Research Institute Library, the State Zionist Council of New South Wales ... and so the list goes on. What I'd like to do in this talk is give you some idea of: 1. What Special Libraries exist 2. What their collections contain 3. What sort of services they provide 4. How people in country areas of South Australia can make some use of them.
Publisher	Road Accident Research Unit
Publisher City	Adelaide
Conference Name	Country Librarian's Conference
Conference Location	Whyalla, Australia
Conference Date	13 August 1993
Page Count	9
Notes	Available from CASR library on request

Reference

Samagalski A (1993). Special Libraries. Country Librarian's Conference, Whyalla, Australia, 13 August 1993.