Over 40 volumes of actual business plans compiled by, and aimed at, entrepreneurs seeking funding for small businesses in North America. Includes business-plan templates, fictional business plans, and listings of organizations, agencies, and consultants, plus glossaries and bibliographies.
Learn how to start, finance, or manage your small business. Includes sample business plans, how to guides, articles, and more.
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Chilton DIY from Gale provides exclusive photographs, step-by-step repair procedures, wiring diagrams, recalls and Technical Service Bulletins (TSBs) for automobiles and light trucks in one easy-to-use website. A vehicle Selector lets you search thousands of combinations of year, make and model covering the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years, as well as coverage of specialty models.
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Library of Congress, Chronicling America
The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. Includes: maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a Physical Map of the World, a Political Map of the World, a World Oceans map, and a Standard Time Zones of the World map.
Access a wide array of multidisciplinary content by searching scholarly journals, newspapers, periodicals, images, and videos.
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Visit the online Calendar of Classes & Events to find and register for computer classes offered at FBCL library branches.
More than 41,700 links, categorized and cross-referenced, in more than 100 categories.
Data Axle: Reference Solutions (formerly known as ReferenceUSA) database is a national residential and business directory, perfect for finding new customers or researching an industry. The business listings are comprised of more than 94 million US business records, 379 million US Historical business records, and 2.2 million New Business records (a total of more than 356 million US business records). Also included are 257 million consumer records in Consumer Lifestyle, 2.4 million Canadian Business records, 2.3 million Healthcare records, and 10 million New Movers/Homeowners records.
The detailed company information includes company name, address, phone, executive contact name and title, employee size, sales volume, SIC codes, NAICS codes, credit ratings, business type, location type, news information, 10-Ks, and more. With 45 customized search options and downloading and printing capabilities, users can create lists for marketing, building a business plan, and much more. Users have the ability to download and print the lists.
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Texas is the most disaster-prone state in the country with 372 federal disaster declarations since 1953.
Learn how to protect your home from natural disasters, safeguard your documents, prepare your emergency supplies, make an evacuation route, and stay prepared on this helpful website from the Texas General Land Office.
Free, ad-free and registration-free DMV practice tests for car, motorcycle, and CDL. Good for the permit test, driver-license test, and the senior citizens’ refresher test.
Gain insight on issues in administration, funding, and policy. Best for educators, administrators, and education students.
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The Encyclopedia of Life is a collaborative project for scientists and lay-people whose goal is to document the nearly 2,000,000 living species on the planet. Over the last eight years, some one million species have earned their own encyclopedia page featuring such information as a complete taxonomy, description, images, videos and sound files.
Understand environmental issues that affect people globally through topic overviews, journals, news, and multimedia content.
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Extensive genealogical records gathered by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The site offers access to the Ancestral File and the International Genealogical Index (British Isles, North America, and Finland regions).
Check out and read full-color eMagazines in your browser or open in the Flipster app on your mobile device.
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Searchable database containing official Fort Bend County public and court records.
Fort Bend County Libraries Community Outreach Department compiles and maintains profile information about community organizations and makes this data accessible to the public.
