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Archive for the Business Reference Guides Category (14 posts)

Updated Beauty & Fashion Guides

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Cora Collins Beauty Shop sign, Minneapolis, 1984. Minnesota John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive.
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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 history of the respective industries. Included in the guides are trade and consumer journals, books on the history and people, handbooks, and databases the Library subscribes to that are good for research on industries. There are also links to various publishers, associations, appropriate government agencies, and even specialized research firms. While these guides aren’t exhaustive, we hope they provide enough guidance to be a good starting point for researchers.

Also of interest to our fashion and beauty industry researchers is another updated guide on the wedding “industry.” It is not a guide on how to plan a wedding, although we have included a few such sources as a way to track ascendant trends.  This guide is on an “industry” that is not really just one industry, but several industries – wedding gowns, bridal consultants, DJs, flowers, and catering.  It was developed and organized this way because there are people who research weddings as an industry and because doing the research on each of the component parts can involve similar strategies. There is a little on each component part- examining the difficulties of researching that topic, providing links and resources for the specific component parts, and listing sources that roll them together into one “industry” as a whole.

See our web page for a listing of all of our guides.

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.” […]

Eleanor Lambert–Empress of Seventh Avenue

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… [Eleanor Lambert] realized that the American fashion industry, along with the individual designers deserved to be treated as equals on the world stage. From that moment on, this idea would become her driving passion. (John Tiffany, Eleanor Lambert: Still Here,Pointed Leaf Press, c2011: p.19) On Thursday February 2, 2012 we are hosting a lecture with […]

Made with Love

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4 Star French Chocolate Ice Cream? Chiffon and Velvet Pie?Pots de Chocolat (mousse)? Stuffed Figs au Chocolat? Triple Chocolate Bundt Cake? Valentine’s Day is coming up. If you are looking for something special to do for the ones you love I suggest including chocolate and home cooking straight from the heart (hearth). Our Chocolate: A Resource Guide […]