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Description of the Collection:

  • Size of the collection (as of July 1, 2003):

 

 

 

Books and monographs

 

 

 

16,894

 

 

 

Serials and periodicals

 

 

 

399

 

 

 

Microforms

 

 

 

8,869

 

 

 

Pamphlets

 

 

 

29,825
  • Subjects covered in the collection include:
    • Arbitration and Dispute Settlement
    • Compensation and Benefits
    • Employee Participation and Labor-Management Cooperation
    • Foreign Labor Movements and Comparative Labor Relations
    • Human Resource Management
    • Industrial Psychology and Sociology
    • Industrial Relations and Collective Bargaining
    • Labor Economics
    • Labor History
    • Labor and Employment Law
    • Labor Unions
    • Training and Labor Education
    • Working Conditions; Occupational Safety and Health
  • General collection guidelines:
    • Great emphasis is placed on collecting materials published by labor unions and workers' organizations and pamphlet and fugitive material, as well as materials about labor in Illinois. The library welcomes donations of collective bargaining agreements.
    • The dominant language of the collection is English. A few Western European languages are represented, and materials in other languages are acquired very selectively.
    • The collection focuses on the late nineteenth and later centuries, because labor movements and labor unions are mainly phenomena of those time periods, although other periods are represented.
    • Geographical coverage is world-wide, but the collection is strongest in materials on North America, Western Europe, and Asia.

The library also has extensive uncataloged collections. These include:

  • a Vertical File: 140 file drawers containing pamphlet and other fugitive material arranged by topic and by union name
  • Newspapers published by international unions, state labor bodies, and Illinois local unions
  • Collective bargaining agreements
  • Institute theses and dissertations
  • Looseleaf services, primarily relating to labor and employment law
  • Illinois State Labor Relations Board and Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board materials
  • a Newspaper Clipping File: 9 file drawers containing historical material emphasizing unions in Illinois
  • Unpublished arbitration awards

Although not a significant portion of the collections, the library's nonprint collections include:

  • Microfilm and microfiche: the library owns a large collection of labor union constitutions, convention proceedings, and official documents in microform as well as microform sets of other archival materials. Additional labor-related microform collections are located in the main library Bookstacks.
  • Audiotapes: of colloquium speakers at the Institute
  • Videotapes: the library makes no effort to acquire videotapes and holds only videotapes donated to the library. Videotapes on labor topics needed for instruction are recommended for purchase and located in the Media Center in the Undergraduate Library. These are cataloged and can located by searching the online catalog.

Published and unpublished materials describing the collection:

McCoy, Ralph E. and Elizabeth O. Hogg.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY RESOURCES ON LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS. Champaign IL: University of Illinois, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, 1949.

Onsi, Patricia Wilson.

LABOR HISTORY RESOURCES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. Labor History, vol. 7, no. 2, Spring 1966, pp. 209-215.

Shapiro, Rose Beck.

A SURVEY OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS RESEARCH LIBRARIES IN THE U.S. Master's thesis, University of Chicago, Graduate Library School, 1962.

Soltow, Martha Jane.

UNIVERSITY INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS LIBRARIES; AN OVERVIEW. Special Libraries, vol. 67, no. 4, April 1976, pp. 195-201.

University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). Library.

AMERICAN TRADE UNION JOURNALS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY. Urbana, 1949.

Related collections at the University of Illinois:

The library is a working collection, relying on the main library Bookstacks and on other departmental library collections for backup. Materials relevant to labor and industrial relations and human resource management are also located in the Business and Economics, Education and Social Science, History, Illinois Historical Survey, Law, Newspaper, and Engineering libraries.


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Description of Services:

  • Reference Services:

Answering inquiries

The library attempts to answer all inquiries received, whether in person, by mail, by telephone, or via the Internet. A reference librarian is generally available from 1:00 pm to 6:00 p.m. CST Monday through Thursday. To contact the reference librarian, call (217) 333-7993, or e-mail Yoo-Seong Song. University faculty and students and in-person inquiries have priority for service over all other categories of requesters.

Consultation on sources for term papers, theses, dissertations, and research projects

Users are encouraged to make an appointment with the reference librarian for such consultations.

  • Other services:

Acquisitions list

The library produces a list of materials indexed and added to the LABORLIT database. These lists are posted on the library's homepage and are also distributed through the Internet. Persons who wish to add their names to the Internet mailing list should contact the librarian at yoosong@uiuc.edu.

 

Interlibrary loan

The library does not loan materials or supply photocopies directly. Persons wishing to borrow items through interlibrary loan should contact the Interlibrary Lending Office by telephone at (217) 333-1958; by fax at (217) 244-0398; or via their homepage. Persons who live in Illinois and have active public library borrowers' cards may place requests for materials at their public library.

 

"Labor in Illinois" – temporarily discontinued as of September 1, 2004.

The library maintains the "Labor in Illinois" website, a joint project of the library and the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations. A description of the content of the site is at the Information Neighborhood section of this site.

Library instruction

Orientation tours and online catalog training are offered at the beginning of each semester for new faculty and students. Special arrangements can be made for tours at other times by contacting the librarian. Training in the use of the online catalog and searching article databases is offered as part of the orientation sessions, but arrangements can be made for training at other times by contacting the librarian. The librarian is available for classroom presentations and instruction.

  • Printed guides and handouts available from the library:
    • Guide to Researching Arbitration Cases in BNA's Labor & Employment Law Library
    • LABORLIT: a Brief Introduction
    • Sources for American Labor History Research Located in the Labor and Industrial Relations Library (History 453)
    • Using LABORLIT: a Brief Guide

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