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Management Library

101 Sage Hall
Phone: 255-3389; email: mgtref@cornell.edu

As an integral part of the S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, the Management Library supports the academic endeavors of faculty, students, and staff in the Johnson School, as well as the broader Cornell campus. The library collection includes a wide variety of business resources, focusing on the areas of accounting, corporate data, finance, investments, management, marketing, and international business.

Notable business resources include:

  • Bloomberg (financial information workstation)
  • Choices 3 (market research data on consumers of different products and services)
  • Datastream (historical data for a variety of securities markets worldwide)
  • Securities Data Company (SDC)
  • Socrates (comprehensive social research database containing data on over 4,000 companies)
  • Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS)

Hotel Library

G80 Statler Hall
Phone: 255-3673; email: hotelref@cornell.edu

The Nestle Library is part of the School of Hotel Administration, and its strengths are in all aspects of the hospitality industry, including airline, clubs, convention, cruise, foodservice, gaming/casinos, lodging, real estate, spa, tourism, and wine.

Notable business resources include:

  • Nestlé Library Restaurant Menus Database
  • Nestlé Library Theses Database
  • Trends in the Hotel Industry (print)
  • Restaurant Industry Operations Report (print)
  • Bloomberg (financial information workstation)
  • Wharton Research Data Service (WRDS)
  • Hotel Outlook

Mann Library

Phone: 255-5406; email: mann_ref@cornell.edu

Mann Library's business collection reflects the needs of the Department of Applied Management and Economics and that department’s undergraduate business major. Particular strengths include agricultural economics, finance and entrepreneurship.

Notable business resources include:

  • Bloomberg (financial information workstation)
  • Census of Agriculture & Agricultural Statistics (print)
  • Participant-Centered Learning and the Case Method (Harvard Business School, CD-ROM)
  • National income and product accounts of the United States, 1929-99 (CD-ROM)
  • Encyclopedias Of American Industries/Emerging Industries/Global Industries

Olin Library

Phone: 607-255-4144; email: okuref@cornell.edu

The Olin economics collection serves campus economists needing theoretical and descriptive economics.  Business related components of the collection include biography and company history;  international and public policy influencing economic affairs; global development such as relations between multinationals and nations; and economic and demographic statistics from IGO's, nations, states and on-site governments.

Notable business resources include:

  • International Monetary Fund data on disk (includes Government Finance Statistics, Balance of Payments Statistics & Direction of Trade Statistics), supplemented by a historical disk.
  • Annual Reports of the World's Central Banks, 1946 to 1999:  financial, economic and statistical profiles of 128 countries (microfiche)
  • Geolytics Census Data (CDROM)
  • The Neighborhood Change Database (NCDB)

Catherwood Library (Industrial and Labor Relations)

Ives Hall
Phone: 255-5435; email: ilrref@cornell.edu

The Catherwood Library provides resources and reference in support of the "workplace" aspects of business. In brief, anything that has to do with the relationship between employer and employee. This includes human resource management, labor-management relations, labor and employment law, labor economics, organizational behavior, and more.

Notable business resources include:

  • BNA Human Resources Library (Bureau of National Affairs)
  • BNA Labor and Employment Law Library (Bureau of National Affairs)
  • SOCRATES (Corporate Social Ratings Monitor)
  • ERI Platform Library (including relocation and salary assessment software)

Law Library

3rd floor, Myron Taylor Hall
Phone: 255-7236; email: library@law.mail.cornell.edu

Legal issues permeate every aspect of business, from establishing a business and hiring employees to dissolving the business. The Law Library has all US federal and state laws,  laws from many other countries, transnational business information, treatises on a myriad of subjects such as bankruptcy, securities, and sale of goods, transactional forms, and a collection of business treatises and forms specific to New York.

Notable business resources include:

  • Globalization and Labor Standards Database
  • International Labor Organization Mirror Site
  • IP Notes and IP Admin Notes (Legal research newsletter) 
  • LawMemo.com (employment law)
  • National Arbitration Laws

CISER (Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research)

391 Pine Tree Road
Phone: 255-4801; email: ciser@cornell.edu

CISER provides computing, statistical software consulting, and data acquisition support to faculty, research staff, and advanced students in social science disciplines. The data archive maintains numeric files for secondary analysis, with extensive holdings in demographic and household income studies, economic time series, and public opinion polls.

Notable business resources include:

  • Compustat (market data, from S&P)
  • Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) Stock Files
  • Global Insight (comprehensive economic data for countries,
    regions & industries)
  • Insider Filings (both from SEC and Thompson)
  • County Business Patterns (from the beginning of time, or close to it)

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