Basic business reference sources -- Directories -- Periodicals and newspapers -- Looseleaf services -- Government information and services -- Statistics -- Vertical file collections -- Electronic business information -- Marketing -- Accounting and taxation -- Money, credit, and banking -- Investments : an introduction -- Stocks -- Bonds and other fixed-income securities -- Mutual funds and investment companies -- Futures and options -- Insurance -- Real estate -- Appendix A. Business acronyms and abbreviations -- Appendix B. Federal executive departments and selected agencies and publications -- Appendix C. Federal government corporations and independent agencies relevant to business -- Appendix D. Regional depository libraries as of May 1987 -- Appendix E. Representative types of business information published by state government agencies -- Appendix F. Periodic censuses and programs authorized by law -- Appendix G. Key economic indicators -- Appendix H. Ten key monthly federal periodicals and the statistics they contain -- Appendix I. Free vertical file materials for business collections -- Appendix J. Commodities exchanges -- Appendix K. Census Bureau Construction reports -- Appendix L. Components of the 1980 Census of housing.
