Social Science Libraries Section

Social Science Libraries are special libraries supporting research and practice in the broad domain of the Social Sciences. Thus the section includes for example big Business Libraries as well as small research institute libraries in the fields of linguistics or anthropology.

Following the extensional definition by H.P. Hogeweg-de Haart (FID, 1981), i.e. the UNESCO definition plus other disciplines the Social Sciences include the following disciplines: ... anthropology, communication science, criminology, demography, economics, education, environmental planning, futurology, geography, history, labour science, law, library and information science, linguistics, management science, philosophy, political science, public administration, psychology, social policy, sociology, statistics, science of religion, science of science ...

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The Section is sponsoring the Religious Libraries in Dialogue Special Interest Group.

Social Science Libraries, Sections

Last update: 21 September 2012

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Social Science Libraries Section Call for Papers: Libraries and Social Movements: A Force for Change

Theme: Libraries and Social Movements: A Force for Change

Continued… | 16 January 2013

Social Science Libraries Standing Committee Minutes, Puerto Rico, 2011

The Social Science Libraries Standing Committee Minutes are now available for meetings I and II from Pueto Rico, 2012.

Continued… | 7 August 2012