This online database includes information on more than 14 million U.S. businesses and 200 million U.S. residents.

• Search by company name, location, business type, SIC or NAICS code, Yellow Page listing and more.

• Link to Google News, maps, driving directions, the Fortune 1000 Ranking, Public Filing information and news headlines

• Create mailing lists of up to 50 names

Search ReferenceUSA for free.  This database can be accessed from the library or from home by inputting your Wauconda Area Library card barcode number.
 

Scout for local competition or create mailing lists to reach out to new businesses.  Search new business licenses, home foreclosures and Chapters 7, 11 and 13 bankruptcies. 

Search public records updated weekly regarding:

• New owners of residential, vacant, commercial or industrial property

• New business licenses

• Upcoming auctions or foreclosures

• Bankruptcies newly filed and discharged for Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Lake, McHenry and Will counties

Search Record Information Services for free.  This database can be accessed from the library.

FirstSearch Database - ABI_INFORM  Search over 2.8 million full-text articles and shorter abstracts on U.S. and international business topics.  This database is updated weekly and covers:

Accounting	Marketing
Banking	Planning and Strategy
Human Resources	Real Estate
Management	Communications

Search ABI INFORM for free.  This database can be accessed from the library or from home by inputting your Wauconda Area Library card barcode number.
 

Check out some of the library's many new business books!  Here are a few of our new titles, just for starters:

• Blogwild! A Guide for Small Business Blogging by Andy Wibbels
   

• The Entrepreneur's Information Sourcebook: Charting the Path to Small Business Success by Susan C. Awe
   

• Investors in Your Backyard: How to Raise Business Capital from People You Know by Asheesh Advani
   

• Alpha Dogs: How Your Small Business Can Become a Leader of the Pack by Donna Fenn
   

• Trust-Based Selling: Using Customer Focus and Collaboration to Build Long-Term Relationships by Charles H. Green

The Adult Services Department at the library offers 16 computer workstations and 8 circulating laptops with high-speed Internet access available for use with your Wauconda Area Library card. 

Want to use your own laptop computer at the library?  The library offers free wireless high-speed Internet access throughout the building.

The library offers hands-on computer classes which are listed in our quarterly Focus newsletter.  Contact the Adult Services Reference Desk at 847-526-6225 ext. 203 for more information.  We also have on DVD: