THE LIBRARY OF THE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT AND LABOR RELATIONS AT RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: A RESOURCE TO NEW JERSEY AND BEYOND

Abstract

The School (formerly the Institute) of Management and Labor Relations (SMLR) was founded in 1947 by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature, to "foster harmony between labor and management." Its mission is to improve knowledge and practice within the areas of labor relations, industrial relations, and human resource management. The School is composed of three departments: Human Resource Management, Labor Studies and Employment Relations, and Library and Information Services. The Rutgers undergraduate colleges offer a B.A. in Labor Studies; and the School awards the Master's Degree in Labor and Industrial Relations, the M.S. in Human Resource Management, and the Ph.D. in Industrial Relations and Human Resources. In 1991, the School also began offering the M.S. in Human Resource Management in cooperation with the Singapore Institute of Management. The SMLR Library acts as a center for acquiring, organizing and disseminating information on labor, industrial relations and human resource management. Its mission is to: 1) provide services and develop collections in support of the School's credit programs; 2) provide library and information services to the School's continuing education (non-credit) programs; 3) maintain the School's archives and work cooperatively with Special Collections/Archives at the Rutgers University Alexander Library in New Brunswick in obtaining labor management archival materials; and 4) provide broad-based reference, research, and referral services to scholars, labor and industrial relations practitioners, and to workers throughout New Jersey and beyond.