Business News
SOHO. (Small Office Home Office)
The Wilmette Chamber of Commerce offers a new group, SOHO. (Small Office Home Office), a monthly business solutions roundtable. Meet with colleagues to discuss issues facing small and home-based businesses. Each month you will address a different topic of interest.
The next meeting is May 16, 2012, from 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM http://www.wilmettechamber.org.
Programs & Events | Databases | Print Publications
Programs & Events
ReferenceUSA Webcast
ReferenceUSA, one of the Library's online information resources, is offering a free introductory webcast. The webcast will beoffered every Friday at 11 AM Central Time through June 29.
This hour long presentation will cover the essential elements you will need to be successful using ReferenceUSA, which contains information on over 20 million businesses, including sales, number of employees, and contact information. It also includes residential listings and a "health care" search for doctors and dentists.
You will learn how to start a simple search and then quickly advance to more detailed queries. You will also see how to manage results by printing or downloading information.
Databases
Business & Company Resource Center
Brings together in one database company profiles, brand information, business rankings, investment reports, industry surveys and periodical articles. Remote access available with a valid Wilmette or Kenilworth library card.
Consumer Checkbook
Nonprofit Consumers CHECKBOOK reveals the Chicago area's service companies and stores rated Best (& Worst) for quality and prices. Remote access available with a valid Wilmette or Kenilworth library card.
Consumer Reports
Consumer Reports features ratings and recommendations on thousands of products and services in categories including appliances, cars, electronics and computers, home and garden, health and fitness, babies and kids, food, personal finance, and travel. Also provided are product buying guides, blogs, safety alerts, recalls, and much more.
Gale Directory Library
Gale Directory Library includes Brands and Their Companies and Encyclopedia of Associations. Remote access available with a valid Wilmette or Kenilworth library card.
Infotrac
Indexes over 9,200 magazines, including Crain’s Chicago Business. Remote access available with a valid Wilmette or Kenilworth library card.
Legal Forms
Personal and business forms. Remote access available with a valid Wilmette or Kenilworth library card.
LexisNexis
Respected wide-ranging information source containing over 10,000 news, business, legal, and other sources; legal content only available from within library.
Mergent Web Reports
Mergent Web Reports offers a vast archive of corporate annual, quarterly and interim reports from over 100 countries. Users are able to access an unparalleled collection of digital images of company documents. Web Reports provides the ability to search documents by company name, region, country, document type or year of report. Call the WPL Reference desk for login instrctions.
Morningstar
Rates stocks and funds. Research current or prospective holdings and see how investments fit together. Remote access available with a valid Wilmette or Kenilworth library card.
Proquest
Fulltext articles from over 2,000 magazines and newspapers, including Barron’s, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, & Chicago Tribune. Remote access available with a valid Wilmette or Kenilworth library card.
Reference USA
Information on U.S. and Canadian businesses including sales, number of employees, and contact information. Also residential listings. Allows user to create custom searches: Select a location and do a radius search to look up the number of similar businesses in the area. Search for home based businesses. Remote access available with a valid Wilmette or Kenilworth library card.
S&P Net Advantage
A comprehensive source of business and investment information from Standard and Poor's offering online access to popular research products including stock reports, The Outlook, bond reports, etc. Remote access available with a valid Wilmette or Kenilworth library card.
Print Publications
Hulbert Financial Digest
Kiplinger’s Retirement Report
Kiplinger Tax Letter
Kiplinger Letter : Forecasts for Management Decision making
Moneyletter
Richard E. Band’s Profitable Investing
Small Business Tax Strategies
Newspapers and Magazines
Advertising Age
Barron’s
Bloomberg Markets
Business Week
Consumer Reports MoneyAdviser
Crain’s Chicago Business
Financial Times
Forbes
Fortune
Inc.
Investor’s Business Daily
SmartMoney
Wall Street Journal
