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Silent Sky: A Case Study in Researching the Pesticide Industry

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

This post was written by Lynn Weinstein, Business Reference Librarian in the Science, Technology, and Business Division. The sedge is wither’d from the lake,  And no birds sing — KEATS A recent Cornell Chronicle article reported that nearly 30 percent of birds in the North America have vanished since 1970.  Simultaneously, the population of raptors …

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Updated Beauty & Fashion Guides

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

This is a second post about updates for Business Reference guides, and this post features guides for those studying the fashion industry  and beauty business. I hope that both of them can help those doing research on the current state of the industry, but both also include resources for those wanting to look at the …

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New Guides in Business Reference Services

Posted by: Angel Vu

Our goal as librarians at the Library of Congress is to help you find information quickly. We understand that library research—especially at the Library of Congress, which has one of the most extensive collections in the world—can be overwhelming. According to the 2007 North American Title Count, there were over 1.1 million titles classified under …