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Business and Finance

Manager: Uzoma Onyemaechi
Email: uonyema@detroit.lib.mi.us
Phone: (313) 833.1420
Fax: (313) 833.1452

In 1918, the mission of the newly created Business & Commerce Department was to be:"a clearing house for all varieties of business information of importance and value." That mission remains unchanged today in the Detroit Public Library's Business & Finance Department.

Small business development	World business news
Business plans	Business management
Business and financial planning	Franchising
Investing	Marketing
Manufacturing	Accounting
Foreign trade	Human Resources
Corporate History

B&F maintains subscriptions to a large number of business and financial periodicals and newspapers including Barrons, Business Week, Crain's Detroit Business, The Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune, Investor's Business Daily, and The Wall Street Journal.

A special collection of "home-based and business how-to" books contains specific small business start-up instructions and advice.

Specialized services answered through the Business & Finance department include business related reference service with the guidance and assistance of reference librarians, and price quotes for stocks, bonds and mutual funds.

For more information related to this department, please go to our e-resources

* Telephone reference service is available during normal library hours. Reference questions are also welcome in person and by mail. Involved research will most likely require coming into the library where a librarian can assist in helping to start the search.