No Cost Online Non-Profit Research: Sometimes Free Really IS Free

Discover online resources previously only available to large businesses and now available to you for free. Create demographic and census data maps for presentations using SimplyMap, conduct research on 24 million U.S. businesses and non-profits and 235 million U.S. residents using Reference USA, view 248,660 online videos from producers like PBS, BBC, NOVA, and Frontline, and research almost any topic from reliable content providers. All these resources and more are available for free through NCLive.Org and your public library. You will wonder how you ever did without them.

Speakers: Betty Garrison & Sara Thynne

Organization: Elon Univ

Speaker Bios: Betty Garrison is the Business Research Librarian at Elon University in Elon, NC. She is the liaison to the Love School of Business and works with students and faculty to research topics in business, economics, accounting, management, marketing, entrepreneurship and sales.

Sara Thynne is the Reference & Instruction Librarian at Alamance Community College in Graham, NC.

Session Tags: non-profit research; beginner;