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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 twenty-five 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. Technology has
rapidly advanced over the past two 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
Periodicals
Department 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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