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eGuides

Start Your Own Business
This guide will show you the online and Library resources to use to find your target market, plan your business for success, navigate legal and financial hurdles, market your business effectively, and more. Also available in Spanish.

Personal Finance

Manage and sharpen your personal finances skills by exploring Library materials and online resources included in this eGuide designed to help you with your perosnal wealth management. Also available in Spanish.

Online Library Resources

Databases

Business and Company Resource Center
Company profiles, news articles, and product information about 300,000 different companies.

Business Index ASAP
Articles, abstracts and references from 800 business related publications like The Wall Street Journal and New York Times.

General OneFile
Search General OneFile for current news on the economic issues facing the United States. General OneFile pulls information from hundreds of sources including Newspapers, popular magazines, academic journals and public radio.

Morningstar
Look up your favorite stocks, research the latest stock ratings, and find out what companies your mutual fund invests in with this easy to use database.

Standard & Poors NetAdvantage
Ratings and analysis on stocks, bonds, and mutual funds.

Know Your Business
From the Library classes that will help you improve your skills to the materials and resources that will help you start a new business, our Know Your Business section is packed with useful info for job seekers and business owners.

MyLibraryDV
Download the MyLibraryDV application and watch programming on managing your finances. Watch the videos from your home at your convenience! Learn more about MyLibraryDV.

Personal Finance Quizzes
Saving and investing is for everyone! Find out how you are doing in the world of personal finance by taking our quiz. Learn about all the great resources the Library has to help you plan for the future.

Take the quiz: English | en Español

Use this widget to keep an eye on the stock market. Curious about the status of Florida companies? Enter the following ticker symbols to view how they are doing: AAI (AirTran Airways), DIS (Disney), CCL (Carnival Cruise Lines), DRI (Darden Restaurants – Olive Garden, Bahama Breeze, and Longhorn Steakhouse) and JBL (Jabil Circuit).

Library Materials

Building Wealth
Ideas on how to save, invest, and maximize your wealth.

Children and Money
Read up on raising fiscally savvy children.

Estate Planning
Plan for your future with tips on buying insurance, naming beneficiaries and power of attorney.

Personal Finance
Improve your financial position and learn the answers to our personal finance quiz.

Web Sites

General Money Management

Bankruptcy Information for Consumers
From the U.S. Courts.

Credit Reports for Free
Information from the Federal Trade Commission.

FirstGov for Consumers
Financial information for the consumer’s perspective. Information from the federal government.

My Money
Information on money management from the Financial Literacy and Education Commission.

Retirement Plans, Benefits and Savings
From the U.S. Department of Labor.

Investing

Investing Online Resource Center
Facts about investing online.

Investor Guide
Provides stock tips and market updates, along with a “university” with information on investing.

The Motley Fool
Investing basics with information on stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. Free registration.

New York Stock Exchange
View the listings or look up symbols.

Sensible Investor
A step-by-step investment guide.

Smart Money
Access to information on stocks, mutual funds, tools for investing, options, and personal finance. Free membership.