ReferenceUSA is a valuable source of business and residential information for business and consumer research. You can find more than 24 million businesses, 262 million consumers, new U.S. businesses and new U.S. homeowners in ReferenceUSA’s databases, providing quick and easy access to quality information that can be used to answer a wide variety of business questions.
Small business owners/entrepreneurs use ReferenceUSA to:
- select a location and do a radius search to look up the number of similar businesses in the area
- check the strength of the competition with years in business and credit rating
- look for businesses to buy or connect with fellow business owners
Job seekers can locate and research companies they may want to work for. The databases include:
- 200,000 human resource contact names
- business descriptions
- website links to job postings
People who are moving can use ReferenceUSA to:
- find schools, childcare, houses of worship, doctors and other services
- research neighborhoods
- look for housing
- check home value and median income to see how they will compare to neighbors
Students use ReferenceUSA to:
- find articles for research on businesses
- perform complicated searches for papers and class projects
- use data summaries to profile a neighborhood, city or state by type of business, size of business or household median income
To access ReferenceUSA, point your browser to www.nclive.org and click on the Business and Management subject heading. Scroll down the list of resources to find and click on ReferenceUSA. If you are outside of the library, you will be prompted to enter your library card number.
Last summer we told you about the great online resource for eaudiobooks, OneClickdigital. It’s one of the free online resources available to Chatham County Library patrons and gives you access to more than 1,500 downloadable audiobooks.
