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Directory of Special Libraries and<br />
Information Centers<br />
*Published by Gale<br />
Edition Number: 45<br />
Number of Entries: 31,507<br />
Print Pub date: March 7, 2017<br />
E-book ISBN: 978-1-4103-8790-8 (<strong>GDL</strong>)<br />
<strong>GDL</strong> Price: See tiered pricing<br />
Print ISBN: 978-1-4144-8851-6<br />
Print Price: $1,948.00<br />
Customers can purchase just Volume 1 (all the libraries and appendixes in six parts) or the entire 2-volume set<br />
(which includes Volume 1 and the Volume 2 Geographic and Personnel Indexes in three parts).<br />
MARKET/AUDIENCE<br />
Business and medical librarians seeking additional information on a specific topic.<br />
College librarians helping students find specific holdings at nearby libraries.<br />
Independent researchers or historians seeking information on a particular topic.<br />
Job-seekers wanting to gather more information on a particular company.<br />
Vocational students looking for schools in their metro area with certain programs.<br />
Students gathering information for a term paper, thesis, or dissertation.<br />
<strong>GDL</strong> SAMPLE SEARCHES<br />
Corporate librarians in Texas looking for additional resources on marketing and business strategy<br />
in their state can search by the keyword terms “marketing” and “business strategy” and the state<br />
“Texas.”<br />
Law librarians in Portugal seeking other libraries in their country with information on corporate<br />
law can search the term “corporate law” and the country “Portugal” (and broaden the search to<br />
include other countries if not satisfied with the initial search results).<br />
Hospital librarians looking for area hospitals and clinics with information on cancer can search<br />
the database by a particular city (or area code, or postal code) and keyword “cancer.”<br />
Independent researchers or historians writing a book on the Civil War can search that keyword<br />
and find hundreds of libraries worldwide with holdings on the Civil War.<br />
A college student in Boston writing a thesis on climate change could search the keyword term<br />
“climate change” while searching their own customized list of universities if desired (for example,<br />
they could search for climate change information at only “Boston University” and “Harvard<br />
University”).<br />
A researcher in the United Kingdom seeking information on biotechnology and interested only in<br />
collections with a specific type of holdings can search on the keyword “biotechnology” and the<br />
holding types “reports” and “e-books” and analyze the results.<br />
*PRICING AND PUBLICATION DATES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE<br />
For more information, please visit the Gale, Cengage website at www.gale.cengage.com