Business libraries play a crucial role in a nation's development by providing essential information for commerce and industrial activities. They differ from other special libraries by focusing on profit-driven information needs of businesses and have unique collections and services tailored to support users in the business field. Effective information dissemination and various services such as current awareness, research assistance, and inter-library loans are key functions of business libraries.

1. SPECIAL LIBRARY
BUSINESS LIBRARY

2. INTRODUCTION
• Business organization play very important role in
the development of a nation apart from science and
technology of the country. But this progress and
development of any nation cannot be achieved in the
absence of libraries which hold in its stock very
important content in the form of information and
only this institution can disseminate in an effective
manner. These libraries act as a catalogue agents in
dissemination.
• Business is different catalogue under special
library. These libraries are not school of commerce,
where people are supposed to learn commerce but a
place where skilled commerce people go to obtain
their information. This includes libraries attached
to business houses, trade organization, industrial
organization and commercial organization.

3. • Business trade and industrial libraries are different
from each other in some respect . However the
common thing among theme is that their motive is
profit making which lacking in other type of special
libraries

4. HISTORY
The concept of a public business library was
first developed by John Cotton Dana, who was
the head of the New York pubic library in New
Jersy. John Cotton Dana opened the first
Business Library in the country in Newaire in
1904.
Kristein Business Library opened on May 7,1930.
It was the first public library in LIS to be built as
a gift of abusiness man.

5. DEFINITION
“Business library is the library which cover
services aiming to provide information about
business, trade, industries and other related
field.”
“Business library may be defined either as a
library which provide information ,which a
business needs in order to operate or as a library
, which provide information relating specially to
companies, markets, products and management
topics”

6. PURPOSE
(1) Provide information services which enables the
members of the organization to keep track of
the development in their field of business,
trade, industries.
(2) Library searches literature exhaustively and
bring it to their notice before the start of a
project to be undertaken by the organization.
(3) Provide information promptly, thereby saving
time of the user.

7. (4)It supports the teaching and research activities
of the business related persons, local corporate
community and general public.
• To keep abstract the users of current business
happening in the world.

8. COLLECTION
• The collection in business library is
different then the other special
libraries. In addition to the
acquisition of conventional material
like book and journals such libraries
dominated in the category of non-
materials like trade catalogue,
standard, patent, specification,
company report, market survey
report, news paper, maps and atlas.

9. (1)BUSINESS REFERENCE
COLLECTION:
The business and economic collection
encom- passes subject area such as:
accounting adver- tizing, business
history, import and export, fin- ance,
international business, labour
manage- ment, personal relation,
market research,print collection.

10. (2)PRINT COLLECTION:
Comprises of following types of
materials:-
• Directories
• Company annual report
• Business and trade annual
• Market research report journals
• Trade literature

11. • Electronic resources
• Periodical
• Maintain a microfilms collection of
periodical consisting of trade and
regional business journal

12. Core collection of business and economics
periodical is available in the business
library . Current issue are displayed
alphabetically by title and journals are
available. The business library are also
maintains a microfilm collection of
periodicals consisting of trade and regional
business journals.

13. SERVICES
The librarian of such library is concerned
with the provisional of accurate update
and timely information. The business
librarian has to keep in regular touch with
others business libraries and external
agencies developing in the same or allied
areas. These are some of the services
provided by the business libraries.

14. • Current Awareness Services (CAS)
• Bibliographic Services
• Image Online
• Information and Research Services
• Loan Services
• Reference Chat Services
• E-mail information Services
• Photocopy Services

15. • Reservation Services
• Document Delivery Services
• Inter Library loan Services
• Bulletin Board Services
• User Orientation Services

16. CONCLUSION
Business information is in strong demand by a
wide range of library patrons. Academic libraries
must meet the needs of the undergraduates,
graduates, and faculties, who wants information
about business for their course work and
research. Public business library must provide
investors and job seekers with information about
financial trends, prospective employees and
particular industries. Special libraries must
provides their users with immediate and current
data about clients, competitor and markets.

17. Mohd Muzzammil
&
Krishna Kumar