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Business and Nonprofit Resources

Resources for businesses, entrepreneurs and nonprofits.

Recommended Reading

Search the library's online catalog to find books in various formats on the following topics: 
Business       Management       Marketing       Small business       Business management       
Entrepreneur magazine's Start up series       
Nonprofits       
Project management       Home-based business series

Or browse these noteworthy business titles, as well as books on business plans, proposals and legal and tax advice!

Business-related call numbers

Call number is a combination of numbers and letters assigned to a library book or another library item to indicate its place on a shelf. A letter in a call number is usually for initial of author's last name, followed by publication year.  Example: 658.401 A 2013

BUSINESS      
    accounting   657 or 658.15
    communication 658.45
    consulting 658.46
    customer service  658.812    
    e-commerce  658.041 or 658.8
    employee coaching  658.312  
    employee motivation  658.314 or 658.4092
    entrepreneurship  658.022 or 658.4    
    ethics 174.4 or 658.45
    forms     346.065, 651.29
    home-based business  658.041 or 643.58
    human resources (personnel) management  658.3
    incorporation  658.1 or 346.066
    industrial relations  658, 658.3 or 658.4
    law     346.065, 346.07
    management 658
    marketing, sales promotion 658.8 ;  marketing research   658.83
    negotiation   650.14   or 658.4
    organization   658.4    organizational change   658.406
    plans     658.022, 658.401    
    sales management   658.81 or 658.85
    self-employed   658.022
    small business 658.022 or 658.041
    statistics    519.5      
    telemarketing   658.84
    time management   650.1
    writing  651.7

CAREERS   650.14
    interviewing  650.14 or 658.311
    job applications  351.1 or 650.14
    job descriptions  331.701
    job search (hunting)    650.14
    MBA degree   650.14 or 658
    vocational guidance   331.702 or 650.14
    
ECONOMICS   330-339
    banks and banking  332.1
    bankruptcy  346.078    
    company histories   338.76 
    consumer protection and education 381.33
    credit  332.024 or 332.743
    estate planning  343.053 or 346.05
    finance, personal  332.024
    finance, public  336 or 352.12     
    futures  332.6    
    globalization  337 
    income tax  336.2 or 343.052
    insurance  368
    inventions, patents  346.0486
    investments  332.024 or 332.6
    macroeconomics   339    
    market share   338.4
    microeconomics  338.5
    mortgage loans  332.722 or 643.1
    natural resources   330.9 or 333.7
    portfolio management   332.6    
    real estate, home ownership  333.33    
    stockbrokers   332.62
    stock and bond market   332.632
    unemployment   331.137 or 650.14
    unions (trade, labor)   331; 331.8
    U.S. (economic conditions)  330.973
    tax planning   343.052
    wages  305.562 or 331 or 650.14
    Wall Street   332.6

INDUSTRIES
        automobile   338.76;  auto sales  629.209    
        aviation   629.13
        banking  332.1
        construction 690, house construction 694
        hotel management  647.94    
        insurance  368    
        manufacturing    670
        merchant marine   387.5 
        real estate  333.33
        railroads   385;  625.26
        restaurant management   647.95
        telecommunications   384 or 621.382
        transportation    380s

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