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Business Resources: for Businesses of All Sizes

Your gateway to resources for businesses and nonprofits.

Library Resources

Access these powerful, info-rich resources free at the library or anywhere using your Vernon Area Library card. Sign up to get a card for your business.

 

Recommended Reading

Flipster 

Use your Vernon Area Library card to download and read current and back issues of these publications on the free Flipster app:

  • Bloomberg Business Week
  • Entrepreneur 
  • Fast Company
  • Forbes
  • Fortune
  • Inc. 
  • Kiplinger's Finance
  • Money

Learn Online

Gale Courses

Instructor-led, 6-week classes on tech topics, health-care training, business/accounting, personal development, law, test prep, and more. Some Gale Courses can lead to certification. Log in with your Vernon Area Public Library card.

LinkedIn Learning

LinkedIn Learning offers video courses in online and social media marketing, data analysis, project management, leadership, productivity, and software. Log in with your Vernon Area Library card.

Great Course on Kanopy

Watch the Critical Business Skills for Success course, free with your Vernon Area Public Library card.

Subscribe

Sign up to receive occasional business emails from the library.

Get help

Whether you're prospecting new opportunities for a nonprofit, developing your career, or thinking about starting a new business, the library has resources to help. Schedule a 45-minute meeting with Business Outreach Librarian Ashley Johnson to

  • get one-on-one help with your business or nonprofit questions
  • learn more about library resources, and
  • find out how the library supports local businesspeople

Ashley Johnson

Business & Outreach Librarian

300 Olde Half Day Rd.

Lincolnshire, IL 60069

224-543-1427

Around the Web

Centers are located throughout the state and provide information, confidential business guidance, training, and other resources to start-ups and existing small businesses.

SCORE is the nation's largest network of volunteer, expert business mentors, with more than 10,000 volunteers in 300 chapters. As a resource partner of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), SCORE has helped more than 10 million entrepreneurs through mentoring, workshops, and educational resources since 1964.

Resources for starting, financing, and managing a small business. Links to local resources and timely tips for your small business.