Small Business
The Library is a center for adult learning and achievement where entrepreneurs can thrive. We provide information, programs, access to technology, referrals, and a broad range of useful materials.
Stay tuned for the next series of workshops!
Get real time online help from business advisors at CT Small Business Development Center; share documents, work on applications for funding, and update progress in real time. Access is available by borrowing a secured Virtual CTSBDC Laptop for on-site use only; visit the Downtown Branch, Public Sevice Desk.
Small Business Administration, Connecticut District Office
280 Trumbull Street Second Floor
Hartford, CT 06103
Phone: 860-240-4700 Fax: 860-240-4659
Hours of Operation: Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
District Director: Bernard M. Sweeney
Legal Information Reference Center - Includes forms related to Business & Corporations; Patents, Copyrights & Trademarks; Property & Real Estate; Rights & Disputes.
ReferenceUSA - Offers listings of more than 14 million U.S. businesses to conduct market research and competitor analysis
Business Plans Handbook - includes over 250 sample plans
Encyclopedia of Small Business
Zino Online Magazines: Bloomberg; Businessweek; The Economist; Forbes; Harper's Magazine; Kiplinger's; Money Sense, and more. Several popular magazines are also availavle in print such as, Business Week; Entrepreneur; Fortune; Harvard Business Review; and Inc.
Newspapers Search all newspapers at the same time or individually.
For more books and magazines, SEARCH THE CATALOG at www.hplct.org by SUBJECT or KEYWORD, using terms: ‘business’, or ‘entrepreneurship’; or BROWSE THE SHELVES in these Call Number locations: 'BF637.S8', 'HD- ' , and 'HF1000- '.
Free public access computers with Microsoft Office products and Internet access are available at the Downtown Library and at all branches. A library card from any town in Connecticut is required to use computers in the Library.
Phone: (860) 695-6300
