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Business Plans: Books

This guide presents library resources that can help you create a business plan.

Tips for finding books

You may want to look at books about business plans or your industry. The Library will get them for you if it is possible through interlibrary loan. The best place to find these books is using Worldcat.org or Amazon.com, and then making an interlibrary loan request. We will not be able to get you publications by the trade associations in most cases, but you may want to try. For example, there are a number of books on starting a food truck business. Books can give information on setting up the business, including equipment needed, time estimates, and how to deal with local regulations.

Check our collection for books and e-books first, but most likely we will need to find it somewhere else. The library also has access to videos which may be useful and can be streamed on your device.  You can find them in the list of library databases under K for Kanopy.

Samples of books from the Claire T. Carney Library