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Business Plan Handbook collection

A collection of actual business plans compiled by, and aimed at, entrepreneurs seeking funding for small businesses in North America. Plans are from businesses in the manufacturing, retail and service industries, with company names and addresses changed. Also includes a business plan template, fictional business plans, a listing of organizations, agencies, and consultants; a glossary; and an updated bibliography.

Career Information Center

The Career Information Center provides information every job seeker should have. Updated with a full volume devoted to computer careers, the first 12 volumes each focus on a different career area, and contain over 700 job profiles. Each profile includes a job summary chart, a job description, and up-to-date salary information. The 13th volume contains the index, as well as essays on different aspects of employment.

College Blue Book

Guide to thousands of 2- and 4-year schools in the U.S. and Canada. Covers the expected listings and detailed descriptions, degree programs offered, scholarships, and occupational education programs.

Gale Virtual Collections

Gale Virtual Collections provides access to various magazines, academic journals and newspapers using a cross-reference search. 

Collections include:

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

Topics include:

  • Business
  • Education
  • Environment
  • General Reference
  • History
  • Law
  • Literature
  • Medicine
  • Multicultural Studies
  • Nation and World
  • Religion
  • Science
  • Social Science

Scholarships, Fellowships and Loans

An annually updated resource that provides more than 4,200 sources of education-related financial aid and awards at all levels of study.  Provides comprehensive information on sources of education-related financial aid sponsored and administered by private organizations and companies. Covers a variety of programs in all educational areas, including area and ethnic studies, business, computer science, education, liberal arts, medicine, physical sciences, theology and religion, and more. Intended for students and others interested in education funding.

Virtual Reference Library (eBooks)

Reference eBooks are the same books that rest on our shelves, but in an electronic format. You can access them here through our database page or through our catalog by clicking chain link Chainlink when you see it in the catalog record.

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