The Basic Business Library

The Basic Business Library
Author: Eric Forte
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2011-11-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1598846124

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.

Introduction to Business

Introduction to Business
Author: Lawrence J. Gitman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1455
Release: 2024-09-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Introduction to Business covers the scope and sequence of most introductory business courses. The book provides detailed explanations in the context of core themes such as customer satisfaction, ethics, entrepreneurship, global business, and managing change. Introduction to Business includes hundreds of current business examples from a range of industries and geographic locations, which feature a variety of individuals. The outcome is a balanced approach to the theory and application of business concepts, with attention to the knowledge and skills necessary for student success in this course and beyond. This is an adaptation of Introduction to Business by OpenStax. You can access the textbook as pdf for free at openstax.org. Minor editorial changes were made to ensure a better ebook reading experience. Textbook content produced by OpenStax is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

How to Find Business Information

How to Find Business Information
Author: Lucy Heckman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2011-07-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0313362815

This fact-filled guide serves as an introductory handbook or as a refresher for those who want to research a specific topic or update their research skills. The good news is that more business information is available than ever before. But for those drowning in a plethora of data, that is also the bad news. How to Find Business Information: A Guide for Businesspeople, Investors, and Researchers extends a lifeline to those inundated souls, offering sage advice about locating what one needs easily, quickly, and from trustworthy sources. Encompassing print and digital materials, journals (both online and print), online databases, reference materials, and websites, this handbook will prove invaluable to anyone who finds it necessary to research business information. The tips and tactics it offers can, of course, be used by investors, but also by those seeking information about possible business partners, potential clients and customers, or sources of goods and services. Topics covered include banking and finance, economics, company information, industry information, marketing, accounting and taxation, and management, in short, everything one needs to know to make sound business and investment decisions.

Small Business and the Public Library

Small Business and the Public Library
Author: Luise Weiss
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2011-07-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0838993222

Aligning with current difficult economic times, this book helps libraries assist users entering or already involved in the small business community

Exploring Business

Exploring Business
Author: Karen Collins
Publisher: Ingram
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2009
Genre: Business
ISBN: 9781936126200

Fundamentals of Business (black and White)

Fundamentals of Business (black and White)
Author: Stephen J. Skripak
Publisher:
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2016-07-29
Genre:
ISBN: 9780997920116

(Black & White version) Fundamentals of Business was created for Virginia Tech's MGT 1104 Foundations of Business through a collaboration between the Pamplin College of Business and Virginia Tech Libraries. This book is freely available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/70961 It is licensed with a Creative Commons-NonCommercial ShareAlike 3.0 license.

Business School Libraries in the 21st Century

Business School Libraries in the 21st Century
Author: Tim Wales
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2016-04-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317170504

In a period of change, consolidation and cut-backs as well as rapid technological developments, the business school library is often at the forefront of new initiatives and innovative approaches to delivering and managing information in the most responsive yet cost-effective manner possible. In this unique book a respected group of business library directors from prestigious institutions around the world come together to reflect on the key challenges facing their libraries today, from change management to technology and communications to space. They document the state of the sector during a time of fundamental change, draw on their own local contexts to explore topics and concepts and share their insights into what the future might bring. This book will be essential reading not only for librarians working in business, management or social sciences disciplines but for all professionals managing library and information services.

Making Sense of Business Reference

Making Sense of Business Reference
Author: Celia Ross
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2012-09-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0838995969

A detailed bibliography functions as both a standing reference for desk use as well as a collection development aid for building a core business collection. Including numerous illustrative case studies, Making Sense of Business Reference takes the guesswork out of doing business.

Guide to Reference in Business and Economics

Guide to Reference in Business and Economics
Author: Steven W. Sowards
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2014-07-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0838996353

Focusing on print and electronic sources that are key to business and economics reference, this work is a must-have for every reference desk.