Boston Public Library
General Information
Kirstein Business Library
700 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02116
617-859-2142

The resources of the Kirstein Business Library include:



• National directories of public & private companies -
D&B's Million Dollar Directory, S&P's Register of Corporations, Ward's Business Directory,Mergent Manuals
• Local & regional company directories -
Dun's Regional Directories (Boston, New England); Massachusetts Business Directory; New England Manufacturers Directory; Massachusetts Venture Capital and Private Equity
• Industry-specific directories -
Medical Device Register; Best's Insurance Reports;
• Investment company directories -
Nelson's Directory of Investment Managers; S&P's North American Security Dealers; Galante's V.C. & Private Equity Directory
• Foreign company directories -
Kompass; AmCham Membership directories
• Financial dailies & weeklies -
WSJ, IBD, Barron's, Financial Times
• Investment advisory services & newsletters -
ValueLine; Morningstar; Wall Street Transcript; Hulbert Financial Digest; Prudent Speculator; S&P Outlook
• Tax info, including tax basis & historical stock prices & stock dividends -
CCH Capital Changes Reporter; S&P Daily Stock Price Record; S&P Dividend Record
• Non-profit & trade association directories -
Encyclopedia of Associations
 • Regular & reverse look-up telephone directories -
Coles criss-cross dir.

• Access to online databases -
D&B's Million Dollar Database; Business & Company Resource Center (many available remotely-www.bpl.org/electronic)
• General business book collection (non-circulating) -
accounting; management; personal finance; patents & trademarks; marketing
• Small business start-up material & career collection
• Industry financial ratios -
RMA, Troy, D&B Business Ratios
• Industry-level information -
S&P Industry Surveys; Encyclopedia of American Industries; Market Share Reporter; Food Industry Review
• Economic, demographic & financial statistics -
U.S. Statistical Abstract; Consumer USA; Ibbotson's
• International economic statistics -
UN Statistical Yearbook; Euromonitor-international marketing & retail information; World Development Indicators
• Consumer statistics -
Research Alert Yearbook; New Strategist-Who's Buying series

• 100+ business and trade periodical titles, held for 3 to 5 years
• Local industry periodicals & statistics -
Banker & Tradesman; Boston Business Journal
• Public Corporation Annual Reports in print.