Small Businesses
and the Public Library

Whether your business is established, you’re just getting started, or you’re thinking about starting a new business…The Alpha Park Public Library can help you get informed and stay connected. Look for and join the new Alpha Park Library for Small Businesses Facebook page to stay informed on available resources to help your business succeed. An excellent marketing tool, this Facebook page could be an outstanding discussion forum for local business owners and a terrific way to let the library know what type of programming or other materials may be helpful to you and your business.

Examples of Small Business Resources available at APL

• Books:

  • The complete idiot's guide to best practices for small business by Abudi, Gin.

  • Small business, big vision : lessons on how to dominate your market from self-made entrepreneurs who did it right by Toren, Adam

  • 201 great ideas for your small business by Jane Applegate

  • Business for Beginners by Frances McGuckin

  • QuickBooks 2011 : the official guide : for QuickBooks Pro Users by Leslie Capachietti

  • Home Business Tax Deductions : Keep What You Earn by Stephen Fishman

  • How to Write a Business Plan by Mike P. McKeever

  • 19 Ways to Survive : Small-Business Strategies for a Tough Economy by Lynn Spry

  • Legal Forms for Starting & Running a Small Business by Fred Steingold

  • Adobe Acrobat 9 How-To’s: 125 Essential Techniques

• Audio Books:

  • Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t by Jim Collins

  • Networking With Millionaires by Thomas J. Stanley, Ph.D.

  • Ziglar on Selling: The Ultimate Handbook for the Complete Sales Professional by Zig Ziglar

  • On Managing by Mark H. McCormack

• Magazines:

• Home Business Magazine

• iBi: InterBusiness Issues

• Business Week

 

Local Small Business Agencies:

Small Business Association (SBA) - an independent agency of the federal government to aid, counsel, assist and protect the interests of small business concerns. Including loans, loan guarantees, contracts, counseling sessions and other forms of assistance to small businesses.

SCORE - nonprofit association dedicated to educating entrepreneurs and helping small businesses start, grow, and succeed nationwide.

Turner Center for Entrepreneurship (Bradley University) - has the collective knowledge and resources to assist small or start-up businesses in creating a plan that minimizes risk and takes advantage of opportunities.

 

Resources provided by the Secretary of State Small Business Grant Awarded to Alpha Park Public Library in 2011:

• Training DVDs including:

  • National Safety Compliance: Workplace Bloodborne Pathogens (English & Spanish versions)

  • National Safety Compliance: Workplace Bloodborne Pathogens for Healthcare (English & Spanish versions)

  • National Safety Compliance: Safety Orientation (English & Spanish versions)

  • National Safety Compliance: Preventing Sexual Harassment for Managers (English)

  • National Safety Compliance: Preventing Sexual Harassment for Employees (English & Spanish versions)

Coming Soon:

• DVD player

• Camcorder

• Projector

• Laptop (Loaded with software: Business Plan Pro and Sales Marketing Pro)

Upcoming Events: Stay tuned for programs tailored to your business needs.

SBA's funding should not be construed as an endorsement of any products, opinions, or services. All SBA-funded projects are extended to the public on a nondiscriminatory basis.

 

Have a suggestion for a program? Looking for More Information?
Contact the Information Desk at 309.697.3822 x13