Special,
Corporate
& Research Libraries

Library Consultant — Special, Corporate, & Research Library Planning and Community Development

This is a sample list of the projects Aaron Cohen Associates has worked throughout its years. Additional projects can be sent upon request. Our engagements in the special, corporate, and research library sector span decades and cover organizations ranging from federal agencies and advocacy groups to pharmaceutical giants and technology research centers. Each project reflects our commitment to aligning library services with the operational and intellectual mission of the host organization.

A Sample of Our Engagements

The following organizations represent a cross-section of the special, corporate, and research library work Aaron Cohen Associates has completed. Each engagement was tailored to the specific mission, user base, and operational context of the institution.

• AARP — Washington, D.C.
• American Institute of Architects — Washington, D.C.
• Blanton-Peale Institute — New York City, NY
• Consumers Union — Mt. Vernon, NY
• Digital Equipment Corp — Merrimac, MA
• Engineering Library — New York City, NY
• Hewlett Packard Research Library — Corvallis, OR
• Kennametal Research Library — Latrobe, PA
• IBM Watson Laboratory — Yorktown Heights, NY
• Lederle Laboratories — Pearl River, NY
• Martin Marietta — Baltimore, MD
• Nynex — White Plains, NY
• Raychem Corporation — Menlo Park, CA
• Sandia National Laboratory — Albuquerque, NM & Schering Plough, NJ
• UpJohn Laboratories — Kalamazoo, MI

Planning Libraries That Serve Research Missions

Corporate and research libraries are not simply scaled-down versions of academic or public institutions. They exist to accelerate the work of the parent organization — whether that means getting a pharmaceutical researcher to a clinical trial dataset faster, helping a policy analyst at a national advocacy organization find legislative history, or ensuring that an engineering team at a national laboratory can locate proprietary technical reports without duplicating prior work.

Our engagements in this sector typically begin with a structured needs assessment: who uses the library, what do they need, how quickly, and in what format. From there, we develop service models, collection strategies, staffing recommendations, and — where relevant — space plans that reflect the actual workflow of the organization rather than a generic library template. For organizations managing large volumes of proprietary or digitized material, we integrate digital asset management planning directly into the library's service architecture.

The result is a library that earns its place in the organization's budget by demonstrably supporting the work that matters most. That is the standard we hold ourselves to across every engagement, whether the client is a Fortune 500 research division or a specialized policy institute.