20 Years of Books Researched at the Science, Industry and Business Library by Bogdan Horbal, Head of Technical Processing, Thomas Yoseloff Business Center at SNFLApril 14, 2016

"In the crowded, contested spaces of New York City, privilege is defined by where one sits: a seat in a classroom at a selective school, a courtside seat at a Knicks game, a table at a fashionable restaurant. So it goes as well in the Information Age, I think, as I tour the soon-to-be completed home of the New York Public Library's Science, Industry and Business Library (SIBL for short). I'm looking at a row of library carrels that should soon be some of the most sought after tables in town."

Andrea Moed, “Dinner at the home page restaurant,”Design Is: Words, Things, People, Buildings, And Places At Metropolis, edited by Akiko Busch.

As SIBL prepares to mark the twentieth anniversary of its opening on May 2, 1996, one sure way to illustrate the depth and diversity of its rich research collections is the following selective list of book publications whose authors credit SIBL resources—bibliographic and human—in their acknowledgements.

As the book titles suggest, the writers who hunkered down in the the library's "sought after" carrels have explored a vast range of subjects in business, finance and investment, regulation, industry, technology, and science. And as the source notes demonstrate, among SIBL's strengths are its deep retrospective back runs of government information including patents and trademarks, census and trade data, and legislative, judicial, and executive reports, both domestic and international.

Mining Google Books and Amazon is necessarily restrictive given that these online services offer only limited access to the full text of in-copyright books. Therefore, the list below is far from complete, even when supplemented with titles found in databases such as Project Muse and Oxford Scholarship Online. Additions to this work in progress—a dynamically expanding bibliography—are welcome!

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  • Arguing A.I.: The Battle For Twenty-First-Century Science / Sam Williams

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