A Guide To The Business Library

This is the guide to keep at your side when serving business students, job-seekers, investors, or entrepreneurs in your library.

This newly revised and updated edition (formerly titled "How To Use the Business Library"), the first in 12 years, is a key to timely and relevant business information. Written by two marketing professors and two librarians, this work is divided into four main sections: Introduction to Business Research and the Library; Research Strategies and General Sources of Business Information; Sources of Business Information; and Using What You've Learned. Each of the 16 chapters features an introduction to the topic, an in-depth descriptive list of relevant sources, and research tasks the sources can be used to perform. Expanding coverage on new and emerging technologies in business sources, this edition also provides new methods of accessing this information. Additionally, subject, author/title, organization, and association indexes have been included as well as more international sources, databases, and government publications. The final chapter/section guides the reader through the preparation of a research-based business report. A necessary purchase for academic libraries and very useful in public libraries.

Everything you need to know in order to start, maintain, and provide service for a business collection, and to research virtually any business topic. Now in its fifth edition, The Basic Business Library is a modern sourcebook of core resources for the business library and the business information consumers and researchers it serves. This up-to-date guide also discusses strategies for acquiring and building the business collection in a Web 2.0/3.0 world and recommended approaches to providing reference service for business research. This text includes numerous real-world examples that cover market research, investment, economics, management and marketing. This is a single-volume guide to doing business research and managing business resources and services in a multitude of library environments. Readers will gain an understanding of the nature and breadth of providers of business information; learn the types and formats of information available; become familiar with key resources and providers in major categories such as marketing, financial information, and investment; and understand how to collect, use, and provide access to business information resources.

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In times of recession, the library is more critical than ever for those who want to start a business and need to do research, and libraries are at the heart of a growing need to research business questions.

This long awaited update covers business information according to available formats, as well as specific topics within the area of business.

This updated edition of an Oryx bestseller identifies the best information sources for meeting the demands of researchers. New electronic formats and new publications are included among the 200 prime information sources. An annotated bibliography of over 300 abstracts of recent literature on business reference and business libraries is also included.