Swiping through the Credit Card Industry
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Interested in the credit card industry? The Library's collection includes a few resources you may want to know about.
Category: Business
Unlocking Banking History: Explore our Library Guide
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Business Reference has a new guide that includes material in the American Bankers Association pamphlet collection!
Posted in: Business, Business Reference Guides, Money
Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Birth of Scientific Management
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Modern scientific management systems have a history that really begins with a man named Frederick Winslow Taylor.
Ice Cream Inventions: How the Chill Happened
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
National Ice Cream Day gives us the opportunity to highlight two people whose contributions are important in bringing us this sweet treat.
Posted in: African American History, Business, Inventions, Women's History
Working in the Gig Economy: An Overview of a Rising Industry
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Business Reference has a new research guide, "Gig Economy: A Research Guide." Take a look at the gig economy of today and introduce yourself to some of the Library's resources on the topic!
Posted in: Business, Business Reference Guides
Clocking In, Clocking Out
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Clocking in? Punching out? Where did these come from? Read this post for more information on time recording and tabulating machines.
Posted in: Business
The Shipping World: 1940 and the War
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This is the second of a two part series on Shipping World, looking specifically at issues from 1940, which provide an interesting vantage point to look at the Second World War and find information on British shipping of the time.
Posted in: Business, Transportation
The Shipping World: The Beginning
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This is the first of two posts about the publication Shipping World and Herald of Commerce; a great resource for the history of shipping and shipbuilding. See what the earliest issues from 1883 and 1884 can offer!
Posted in: Business, Transportation
Ice Cold: The Business of Ice
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
The ice keeping your beverage cold has a fascinating history that includes ice harvesting, war contracts, artificial ice machines, a financial panic, and not one, but two Ice Kings.
Posted in: Business