The Libraries

These libraries are on the database:

Corporate libraries

They can be research and development laboratory libraries, production plant libraries, standards libraries, export intelligence libraries. There are also head office libraries and research information centres, fashionably termed ‘knowledge centres’. Banks have economic research libraries, architects practices have libraries, accountants have tax libraries, and engineering companies have engineering and materials sciences libraries. Grouped together these are known as ‘special libraries’.

Academic libraries

Institute, institution and association libraries are on the database. Predominantly these are at university level throughout the UK and Europe, with the addition of about 500 British Colleges of Further & Higher education. Special subject colleges e.g. art, law, music are included. These are sometimes fashionably known as ‘resource centres’. Each university has between 5 and 200 libraries (each tagged by their purchasing subjects). They include the university’s central library, and separately, faculty departmental, research, and affiliated university institute libraries. Wherever possible we have the named subject librarians.

Government libraries

Each country has a wide subject range of government and related agencies libraries. These range from defence to export to parliamentary, to transport research, to veterinary libraries. Cumulatively they are a large and quite well funded portion of your total library market.

Public reference libraries

On the database we include every public library authority in Britain, but we only target the main reference libraries in each, where the reference librarian is a part of the purchasing decision process. In Continental European countries we generally only include the city reference libraries, or the pertinent regional reference libraries.