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E F E R E N C E B O O K S
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Available for your use in the library,
these books
cannot be checked out. |
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On Financial Desk |
Directory of
Obsolete Securities |
Brief profiles of banks
& businesses whose names have
been lost due to name change, mergers and acquisitions,
dissolution, reorganization, & bankruptcy. |
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On Financial Desk |
Mergent Industrial Manuals |
Company histories including name changes
& dates. Use the
blue index. Contains information on transfer agents, auditors,
shareholders and annual meetings. |
At Reference Desk |
Hoover’s Handbook of Private Companies |
Profiles of 900 major non-public companies, including in-depth
histories for 200 of the largest or most influential. |
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International Directory of Company Histories |
Detailed narrative
histories of hundreds of companies (including name changes)
along with side-barred contact information, sales figures,
company perspectives, key dates, and more. Cumulative index
included in latest volume. |
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At Reference Desk |
New York Times – Year-End Closing Prices |
Closing
figures for the last day of trading for the previous year.
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At Reference Desk |
Standard & Poor’s Year-End Bond Guide |
Year-end closing prices for thousands of bonds,1986-1990. Includes
fixed charge coverages for the preceding three years, assets,
liabilities, capitalization, debt to capital ratios and
other data. |
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At Reference Desk |
Standard & Poor’s Year-End Stock Guide
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Year-end
prices & other figures for 1000s of stocks,
1967-90. Each year includes data for the previous five
years, & highs and lows for the preceding 20 or 30 years. |
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On Financial Desk |
Value Line Products |
The Library subscribes to Small and Mid-Cap Edition, Mutual Fund
Survey, Investment Survey, and Investment Survey Selection & Opinion
newsletter. |
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At Reference Desk |
Wall Street
Journal - Year-End Prices
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Closing figures for the last day of trading for the previous year.
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F I N D I N G
B O O K S & O T H E R L
I B R A R Y M A T E R I A L S/
Dewey Decimal browsing numbers: 332.6 |
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addition to reference books, you may want to search for
other books and materials (videos, audiobooks, etc.) on your topic. The best way to find good sources of information is to do a subject
search in our Library catalog. You can access the Library’s
online catalog from the Library or home by going to our Web
page (www.wppl.org),
then - Search Our Catalog - in the upper right hand.
Good
subject headings for this topic are big
business – history; bonds; investments;
securities; stocks.
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e B O O K S |
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You may also
want to check out the collection of thousands of online books (eBooks)
the Library has to offer located on the Web site
www.netlibrary.com. Initially, you must open an account from Library computer terminals,
but you will then be able to use the account from home as well. Search
for employment and career books by the following categories: subject,
title, author. See a reference librarian for more detail. |
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The following sources can be used to find magazine articles dealing
with your topic:
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The Readers’ Guide to
Periodical Literature - Adult Reference
R 050 R.
Search for articles on a subject within any given year.
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EBSCOhost
and
InfoTrac
OneFile
- Access from the Library or at home using your
library card number at
www.wppl.org.
Search for full text articles in these databases using your choice of
keywords. You can limit your search to a certain year or
even a certain magazine.
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InfoTra-General
Business File ASAP
via
InfoTrac OneFile |
Company performances, industry events
& trends, management, economics and politics, broker research reports, trade
publications, newspapers, journals and company directory
listings with full text and images available. |
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New
York Times – Historical Online |
Stock quotes
and other financial information from 1851 to 2003 via the
Library’s Databases page. An active Winter Park Public
Library card is necessary for entry. See also New York
Times Online for quotes from 1980-current. |
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For additional information, please see
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