Special Librarianship Research: We're Number 32!

The July / August issue of Information Outlook has a list of U.S. universities ranked by number of articles published in 2000 - 2010 for subject specialist librarians. To create the list, Amy Hardin and Tony Stankus counted the number of substantial articles librarians had published in fourteen journals. The fourteen journals were in special librarianship areas such as medicine, law and music.

I already knew that SIUC would be on the list. SIUC comes in at number thirty-two with twenty articles. A lot of the credit for this rank goes to the librarians at the law school for publishing in law journals. There's also plenty of credit to go around at Morris Library. Mary Taylor was a coauthor of four articles in medical librarianship journals. Cassie Wagner, Beth Cox, Andrea Imre and I were authors or coauthors of two articles each in special librarianship journals. Jonathan Nabe, Melissa Hubbard, and Ann Myers also have written articles in these journals.