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About the Center for Business Research
In 1978, the C.W. Post Campus, under the
leadership of former president, Edward J. Cook, purchased the collections of the
Nassau County Research Library (NCRL) valued at over $1.5 million. At a
time when fiscal constraints prevented the county from continuing its research
library, offers were made to continue the work of NCRL at an academic
institution. C.W. Post, and the B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library in
particular, became the beneficiaries of some 250,000 business related research
materials. Books, periodicals, microfilm, telephone directories, and
online searching (then a relatively new service) were made available to the Long
Island University
academic community, and to the public at large. Small and major
businesses on Long Island, and academic, public and
special librarians were eager for business information. Mary Grant,
formerly in charge of the business collections at NCRL, was hired by C.W. Post
not only to head the newly organized library, but also to take business
information in a new direction. That direction was to provide
fee-based research
services to the business community, as well as to provide business information
to Long Island University students and faculty.
Over thirty years have passed, and the CBR collections have deepened and taken on new
form. The phone books are long gone, but our Moody's Manuals now span a century and are updated by the
Mergent Online database. Technology has rapidly advanced
over the past three decades so that our students and faculty now have many research
databases at their disposal and remote access to many resources beyond
the Library walls. After a major renovation of the
Library in the summer
of 2003, the collections of the CBR were moved to the main floor of the Library and are now part of the
Business, Law, and Information Science Sources area. The expanded main floor area of the Library
brings these resources in close proximity to the general reference collection,
providing an enhanced level of service and convenience to students and faculty. Accounting, business,
and economics journals are now located in the PeriodicalsDepartment
on the lower level of the Library.
The collections
of the CBR continue to be valued resources for the academic and business
communities. For more information
please contact Martha Cooney, CBR Director.
Martha Cooney &
Linda McCormack
cbr@cwpost.liu.edu
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