BCR Helps You and Your Patrons Weather the Economy

BCR offers training, consulting, products and services that can help your patrons start or grow businesses and train for and find new jobs. We can also prepare you to teach and assist your patrons in job seeking activities or business research and help you market your resources wisely and reduce your costs so you're more efficient than ever.

Help Patrons Find Jobs
BCR offers training for library staff to help them work with job seekers and partners with vendors that offer resume and interview coaching services.

JobNow
Libraries Helping Job Seekers in Hard Times: BCR Online (BCR training)
Recession Relief (Archived Free Friday Forum)
ResumeMaker for the Web

Help Patrons Decide On or Train for a New Career
BCR offers products and services from a variety of vendors that can help patrons prepare for a new career and training for library staff that help patrons on that path.

Ferguson's Career Guidance Center
HelpNow Homework Help
Live Homework Help
Mango Languages
Nobody Told Me I'd Have to Teach! Strategies for the Accidental Instruction Librarian (BCR training)
Proquest Career and Technical Education
Recession Relief (Archived Free Friday Forum)
Teaching Technology to the Public (BCR training)

Increase Your Funding
Advocacy is all about who you know and getting your message to the right people. BCR partners with vendors that offer directories to help you and your patrons make the right connections.

Congressional Leadership Directory Online
CQ Press Political Contact Suite
Federal Leadership Directory Online
Friends of the Library (BCR training)
Leadership Library on the Internet
Leadership Networks

Do More with Less
Free Friday Forums from BCR are not only free... they're archived, so you can listen at your leisure. In the archives are a variety of sessions that can help your staff do more with less. BCR also partners with vendors that can help you stay informed of the needs and wants of your community through GIS, surveys and more and help you fine tune your services and approach for the maximum results.

Ask A Librarian Express
Big E-Reference on a Little Budget (Archived Free Friday Forum)
Is it Time for a National Certification for Library Support Staff? (Archived Free Friday Forum)
LibraryDecision Snapshot, Patron, Planner and Voter
Maintaining Public Computers: Learn from the Experiences of Others (Archived Free Friday Forum)
Needs Assessment/Patron Surveys
Reference Roving: More on the Floor (BCR Training)
Web Design and Programming
Website in a Box
Website Optimization & Re-positioning

Help Create or Grow Small Businesses
BCR partners with a number of vendors that offer products to help communities grow and develop small business owners. These products range from GIS services to databases containing profiles, best practices and sample business cases to electronic content supporting IT, finance and business knowledge needs.

BusinessDecision
BusinessPro
Emerald Management First
ExecBlueprints
ExecSummaries
FinancePro
GovEssentials
ITPro
OfficeEssentials
Well-Being Essentials
Proquest Entrepreneurship
Recession Relief (Archived Free Friday Forum)

Promote Your Resources
BCR offers training and consulting to help you market and increase visibility of your services. Below are a few examples of archived Free Friday Forums that you can listen to at your leisure... or you can contact BCR to discuss a specialized project or customized training for your library. BCR also partners with a variety of vendors that offer tools to help you make the most of your resources through federated searching, aggregating and evaluating usage statistics and managing your electronic resources.

24 Hour Library: Increasing Your Database Usage (Archived Free Friday Forum)
Expose Yourself: Using Technology to Improve Access to Subscription Databases (Archived Free Friday Forum)
Find Your Market (Do a "Find" on "Shaffner")
Google Drive-by Series - Part 1: Notebook, Pages, Docs and Spreadsheet Scholar (Archived Free Friday Forum)
SerialsSolutions 360 Core, Counter, Resource Manager, MARC Updates, Link, Search
Swets eSource Manager, Linker, Metadata, Searcher, Selection Support, ScholaryStats