Corporate Library

Corporate libraries such as those found within Research & Development (R&D) Centers and Law Departments, serve the community of corporation itself, and, before computers and the Internet, they were stand-alone physical places housing important books, other print-based resources, and archival rolls of film. There still are vestiges of a physical facility like that in some corporations, because printed archives are still valued, but, as you can certainly imagine, at-desk on-line resourcing has increasingly become the modern way, maybe the only way for the youngest professionals and newest companies. My own long-time experience is in a corporate R&D Center; I have lived the transition as it relates to stand-alone corporate libraries and widely shared, working-on-line libraries, so let me say…