Georgianna E. Herman Library
The Georgianna E. Herman Library is a reference library created by the Center for Human Resources and Labor Studies for the HRIR program. We specialize in human resources management and labor relations. The library is used by HRIR students, faculty, alumni, and the professional community, as well as by the general public. While the Herman Library is open to anyone, only CHRLS faculty and graduate students have borrowing privileges.
The Herman Library collection includes labor union newspapers, newsletters, working papers, court cases, arbitration awards, federal and state law, theses, reporting services, and miscellaneous pamphlet materials. The library also maintains print subscriptions to more than 100 professional and trade journals.
These materials cover a wide range of human resources and labor relations topics, including recruitment, training, compensation, job satisfaction, motivation, stress, drug testing, strategic management, staffing, effects of technological change, mergers, diversity, labor relations, leadership, unions, organizational behavior, absenteeism, and turnover.
Who is Georgianna Herman?
The Georgianna Herman Library started out as the IRC Reference Room in 1945 at the same time the Industrial Relations Center (IRC) was established. The original purpose of the IRC Reference Room was to “achieve improved industrial relations in the community by making available up-to-date knowledge about industrial relations topics to all concerned parties.”
The name was changed to the Herman Reference Room in 2004 to honor Georgianna Herman’s 2001 retirement. Georgie, as she was fondly known, was the beloved director of the Reference Room from 1953-2001. When the Reference Room moved to its new space in Minnesota Carlson in 2008, it took on a new name — the Georgianna Herman Library — to better describe and reflect its purpose.
“The bigness of the University isn’t always comfortable. I think of the Reference Room as a haven where people can study and think in the comfortable safety of a smaller space.” - Georgianna Herman
We are located in Room 3-306 in the
Carlson School of Management, located at
321 19th Ave. S., on the West Bank Campus of the University of Minnesota
Academic Year Hours:
Monday - Thursday: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Fridays: 8:00 am - noon
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Please contact [email protected] or 612-624-7011 with any questions.