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Archive for the Business Reference Guides Category (19 posts)

Local Business History Using Dun’s Reference Book (Webinar)

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Back in January 2022, Inside Adams published a post about a credit directory the Library had digitized and made available on our website – the Dun’s Reference Books for the years 1900-1924. This August we are finally having a brief webinar to illustrate how to use them!

one chart has ratings A (top) to M (bottom) with estimated pecuniary strength with sales ranges; second chart General credit with the different credit ratings of high, good, fair, limited

Key to Ratings. Dun and Bradstreet Reference Book: March, 1907; Vol. 156, part 1.

While this isn’t a deep dive into the set, we will be providing a bit of information on how to use it and what you will find in it.  Are you…..

  • researching your ancestor’s business?
  • interested in learning about businesses that were once in your community?
  • wondering about the company that made that thing you bought antiquing?
  • looking for information about that company you saw a stock certificate for?

If you answer yes to any of those questions, you might be just the person this webinar is for.  This collection may add just a little more to what you have already found out.

So, if this collection is of interest to you, please join us on August 2nd, from 1 – 1:30 pm.

Register for this August session, and you’ll receive the link to join the webinar. Individuals requiring accommodations for any of these events are requested to submit a request at least five business days in advance by contacting (202) 707-6362 or [email protected].

 

*You will receive a Zoom link prior to the webinar*

Silent Sky: A Case Study in Researching the Pesticide Industry

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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 […]

Are you Researching Companies? Industries? M&A Transactions?

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We wanted to do a series of short posts about happenings on the Business Reference web page, specifically about our research guides. First, I wanted to mention that we recently published a new guide LGBTQ+ Resources in Business and the Workplace that includes materials on the issues that affect the economic circumstances of the LGBTQ+ […]

New Guides in Business Reference Services

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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 […]

Seeing American Enterprise at the Smithsonian

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A new exhibit at the Smithsonian – American Enterprise in the Innovation wing of the National Museum of American History – is telling the history of American business and innovation.   According to the Smithsonian, this exhibit “chronicles the tumultuous interaction of capitalism and democracy that resulted in the continual remaking of American business–and American life.” […]