is an imprint of the american library association . its headquarters are in chicago . 1 the imprint publishes professional books intended for archivists knowledge managers and librarians . 2 history edit patricia glass schuman and john vincent neal founded the publisher in 1976 . originally the company packaged library reference books and professional books published by other companies . beginning in 1979 neal schuman began marketing and publishing its own books . 2 in 2011 neal schuman had a headquarters in new york city and an office in london . it had over 500 in print backlist titles . it also marketed and or copublished around 200 books and monographs . during that year ala publishing acquired neal schuman with the takeover effective on december 23 2011 . in the following three months ala planned to move neal schuman operations from new york city to chicago . 3 references edit neal schuman.com a b about neal schuman publishers . neal schuman.com . retrieved september 24 2012 . kelley michael december 20 2011 . ala publishing acquires neal schuman publishers . libraryjournal.com . retrieved september 24 2012 . external links edit new york city portal companies portal books portal official website neal schuman publishers to join ala publishing american library association . december 20 2011 . this article about a united states publishing company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title neal schuman publishers & oldid 710453753 categories 1976 establishments in illinoiscompanies established in 1976publishing companies of the united statesunited states publishing company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 17 march 2016 at 01 40 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view