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.

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.

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