Business Support

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Support for local--and start-up--businesses is a significant positive economic benefit of the public library.

For the Entrepreneur

'"There are a lot of wonderful programs available for [entrepreneurs] at public libraries," says Leslie Burger, 2006-2007 president of the American Library Association, in an online article from US News and World Report. 1 In her home state of New Jersey, there is JerseyClicks, a statewide portal that features federated searching of the statewide full-text databases offered by the New Jersey State Library, the New Jersey Network, and funds from the Library Services and Technology Act. New Jersey residents can search the full-text databases through one user-friendly interface. JerseyClicks offers keyword and custom searching of databases through a federated search.

Other states have similar programs -- please list yours here:

For the Start-up

In March 2007, as part of an initiative Woman’s Day has co-sponsored with ALA's Campaign for America’s Libraries to promote libraries and librarians, Woman’s Day asked its readers to submit stories of how they used the library to start a business. Four of the new entrepreneurs describe how their local library helped them start up a business in the March 4, 2008 issue.2

Additional Resources

The Library of Congress has a business reference room along with online guides and remote access to some resources.

Best of the Best Business Web Sites, described in Small business start-ups begin @ your library, is a listing of business sites, selected by the Education Committee of the Business Reference and Services Section (BRASS) of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) of the American Library Association.

Surviving and Thriving on Your Own: A Tool Kit for the Independent Professional Intended for library consultants, this is a useful set of checklists for a small business owner.

ipl2: information you can trust provides categorized links to a wide variety of business topics. ipl2 is a merge of the collections of resources from the previous Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians' Internet Index (LII) websites.

Weiss, Luise. Small Business and the Public Library: Strategies for a Successful Partnership. Chicago: Amer Library Association, 2011.



1 "Beyond the Books: Take advantage of the business resources your local library has to offer" U.S. News & World Report. December 11, 2006.

2 "'The library helped me start my business': Woman’s Day and the American Library Association introduce you to four women entrepreneurs who got so much more from the library than books," by Sally Stich. Woman's Day. March 4, 2008. (PDF)
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