The Business & Economics Department
Located on Lower Level One (-1) of the Tom Bradley Wing: Department
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Phone: (213) 228-7100 | Fax:
(213) 228-7119 | E-mail
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Department Staff
- Dan Dupill, Department Manager (213) 228-7241
- Youngsil Lee, Senior Librarian (213) 228-7102
Materials & Collections
The Business and Economics Department contains 172,000 books, 230 current periodical titles and hundreds of trade and association directories. The Department's resources are particularly popular with small business owners/operators, entrepreneurs, importers/exporters, investors, analysts, industry researchers, job hunters, students, and marketing personnel.
Subject Areas
| Accounting |
Internet |
Real Estate |
| Advertising |
Job Hunting |
Small Business |
| Economics |
Labor |
Taxation |
| Electronic Commerce |
Management |
Telecommunications |
| Industry |
Marketing |
Transportation |
| Investments |
Office Management |
Word Processing |
| International trade |
Personal Finance |
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Collection Highlights
- Southern California current and historical company directories and annual reports
- Corporate finance and stock information, current and historical
- Small business & entrepreneurship, including resources for business plans, raising money for a business, home-based businesses, forming corporations and partnerships, starting & operating specific businesses (retail, catering, consulting, importing, etc.)
- Southern California transportation industry
- Government documents depository
- Los Angeles city property records on microfiche
- Trade magazines
- Investor's Business Daily (IBD) 1990 - present
- Statistical Reference Index (SRI), a selective guide to American statistical publications from private organizations and state government sources; indexes and microfiche documents 1980 - present
- Historical mail order catalogs: Sears, Spiegel, Montgomery Ward
Online Business Resources
BEST Friends
BEST Friends is the support group for the Business & Economics and Science, Technology & Patents Departments. For membership information, please contact by mail or email:
BEST Friends, P.O. Box 712217, Los Angeles CA, 90071 best.friends.lapl@gmail.com
Newsletter
Cites &
Bytes is the monthly newsletter for the Business and Economics Department. In it you will find listings of new books, useful Web sites, information on special events and programs sponsored by the Department and other interesting and useful business information.
All issues are in format.
February 2010
January 2010
December 2009
November 2009
October 2009
September 2009
Programs & Events from the Business & Economics Department
2010 programs and events (PDF Format)
For more information for these and other library programs, events and exhibits, plese visit http://www.lapl.org/events/
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