CIRCULATION AND ACCESS
Books
Graduates and Faculty - Semester Loan
Community -
Seven Day Loan
Undergraduates -
Library Use
Print Journals
Library Use
Reference Collection
Library Use
Reserves
Two Hours
Collections
BOOKS AND DOCUMENTS
The book collection broadly covers the issues of employment and workplace issues. Particular strengths of the collection are labor history, labor relations, organization studies, international labor issues, trade unionism and collective bargaining. Print journals, government documents and trade union publications documents must be paged from closed stacks. The collection may be searched with UCB Library Pathfinder and the Melvyl catalog.
E-JOURNALS
The Library publishes a Guide to Electronic Journals in the Industrial Relations Field that points directly at the most important journals of the labor and industrial relations disciplines. It is also possible to search Electronic Journals held at UC Berkeley from the “Electronic Resources” section of the University Library’s Web site, which includes an A-Z listing and provides access links. These resources are available to UC Berkeley affiliates only.
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Oral Histories. The Library has a collection of oral histories of labor leaders, which are also held at the Bancroft Library.
Trade Union Publications. The Library collects trade union newsletters, journals and bulletins. Materials must be paged from closed stacks.
“We Do the Work.” The Library has a full set of “We Do the Work,” a television series of 30 minute feature about labor issues, which was aired on Public Broadcasting Service stations. Non circulating.
Labor Photograph Exhibits. The Library maintains a set of photographs from exhibits that were held at IIR during the period of 2001-2003, and curated by Lincoln Cushing, Electronic Outreach Librarian.
OTHER UCB LIBRARIES
The University Libraries
The Affiliated Libraries
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