Exit Strategies: How to Exit Your Small Business
This post was co-written by Lynn Weinstein and Natalie Burclaff, Business Reference Librarians in the Science, Technology, and Business Division. The COVID-19 pandemic has created an uncertain economic...
View ArticleUpdates for Our International Business Guides
World map, February 1992.https://www.loc.gov/item/2011589553/ Business Reference staff have created several guides with an international focus. In our current effort to update and migrate our guides,...
View ArticleUpdated Railroads and Ship Registers Guides
The two guides featured in today’s post have something in common – transportation. Unloading bananas, New Orleans, Louisiana. Detroit Publishing Co.https://www.loc.gov/item/2016807544/ You might not...
View ArticleLocal Business History Using Dun’s Reference Book (Webinar)
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...
View ArticleThe New National Airport
This image is from the January 1, 1940 issue of the Civil Aeronautics Journal and is the plan for Washington National Airport developed by the Public Buildings Administration with assistance of staff...
View ArticleSteering Through Automotive Industry Resources
This post is by Georgette Green, Business Reference and Research Specialist in the Science & Business Reading Room. The latest version of Automotive Industry: A Research Guide is now accessible...
View ArticleNew “This Month in Business History” Entries for United Farm Workers, César...
This post was written by Lynn Weinstein, a Business Reference and Research Specialist in the Science & Business Reading Room. U.S. organized labor has been gaining influence and power subsequent to...
View ArticleYour Roadmap to Success: Write a Business Plan in December
This blog post was written by Lynn Weinstein, Business Reference and Research Specialist in the Science & Business Reading Room. December has become an opportunity to write or adjust your business...
View ArticleCarnival Season and the Street Sweepers
When I ran across the street cleaning article pictured below, my thoughts went to one of my favorite Carnival traditions — the ceremonial closing of Mardi Gras. For those that don’t know, on Tuesday...
View ArticleA “Jewell” in the Adams Building: Jewell Mazique
This blog post was written by Lynn Weinstein, Business Reference and Research Specialist in the Science & Business Reading Room. In 2024 the Adams Building, which opened in 1939 as the “Annex,”...
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