Business Library and Research

Our Library Catalogue

Search our collection online using our library catalogue.

Need help? If you have questions about using our library catalogue, see our What our Library Catalogue can do for you (PDF file) reference guide before getting started.

What our library can do for you

Looking for information on:

• Business Planning? We have more than 300 sample business plans that you can use as a guide for your own business.
• Human Resources? We have a large collection of HR titles.
• Day-to-Day Business Operations? We have titles in our collection on everything from Business Travel to Writing Proposals.
• Safety? We have a large collection of audio-visual and print titles on safety in a variety of business environments.

Looking for a business idea? We have start-up guides for over 600 different types of business.

Looking for information for your business? We subscribe to over 200 business and trade magazines that give you up-to-the-minute information on your industry.

Looking for suppliers? Our library has the combination of online databases and print directories to help you find the suppliers you need.

Do you want to improve your self-image? Become more assertive? Motivate your employees? Acquire better people skills? Our audio-visual and print titles can help you with all those topics and more!

Want to learn a new language? We have audiocassettes and CDs covering 40 languages, including Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and business French.

Interested in international trade? We have an extensive collection of titles of both general titles on exporting and importing as well as titles on doing business in specific countries.

Looking for other types of business information? We offer more than 11,000 publications to choose from that cover everything from business statistics to foreign supplier listings.

Our reference library has one of the country's most extensive collections of business, trade and industrial publications as well as DVDs, video and audio tapes and compact discs and CD-ROMs, magazines, periodicals, newspapers, online databases and directories. You can come in and use the print publications for reference, or borrow our audio-visual titles to use in the comfort of your office or home. The use of our materials is free. Contact us for more information.

See also:

• Audio-visual Loans Policy of the Canada/Manitoba Business Service Centre

New Arrivals Notification

The "New Titles Report" is a weekly listing of our library's latest acquisitions. If you would like to receive this report each week by e-mail, send a quick note to us at manitoba@canadabusiness.mb.ca

Public Computer Access

There are three public use workstations in our library. You can use them to search for information on the Internet or access the subscriber-only databases we provide access to for free. For more information, see:

• Databases at the Canada/Manitoba Business Service Centre
• Computer Use Policy of the Canada/Manitoba Business Service Centre
• Internet Use Policy of the Canada/Manitoba Business Service Centre

Two of our workstations have special software and hardware for persons with disabilities.For more information, see Services for Entrepreneurs with Disabilities at the C/MBSC.