Choose one of the topics listed below (or one of your choice approved by me) and prepare a 15-20 minute class presentation on the topic. Bring to class the day of the presentation a short bibliography (annotated) of readings/sources on the topic and distribute a copy to each member of the class. Notify me via e-mail a topic of your choice (first come, first served).  An LCD projector will be available for those who wish to use the Internet or show Powerpoint slides for their presentations. Also, please provide me with a printout of your Powerpoint slides if you use them. 

If none of these topics interest you, propose another to me for approval.

l. Information entrepreneurs (or information brokers) and what they do for businesses.
2. Selling fee-based information services in a "free" public library environment.
3. Educating undergraduate students in the use of business information sources in a medium-sized academic library.
4. How to keep up with (and preferably, ahead of) new federal and state laws and regulations affecting the ____________industry.
5. Starting and managing an investment club.
7. End user searching of business related databases in a ______________ (choose public, academic or special) library: problems, advantages, library responsibilities, etc.
8. Pretend you are a special library consultant and you have been asked to make a presentation to top officers in the company on why they need to establish a special library in their company. Choose your own type of company for the presentation.
9. Small businesses and the public library: what is being done and what can be done to help them?
10. Investment newsletters from private investment counselors: what they are, what they do, what they cost, what they are worth, etc.
11. Investor listservs(and discussion groups, such as appear on Raging Bull and other investor boards).
12. How to find company and business information on _____________(name of a country or multi-country geographic region)
13. Customer relations management: implications for library services
14. Knowledge management
15. Summarize what you (and the literature) consider the best practices of some type of library (eg., academic business libraries) in the use of the WWW for end user reference assistance purposes in business.
16. The Internet for small business: bonanza or boondoggle?
17. Search engines on the net for business information: an explanation and appraisal
18. Business-to-business e-commerce: what is it and where is it headed?
19. Using online brokers: advantages and disadvantages
20. After-hours trading: what is it, and what are its implications for investors?
21. Ethics of business information services in a public library
22. Using Ipods (or similar such devices) in a library for communicating and deliverying information to users
23. Using XBRL for delivery of investment information to users 
24. ?  talk to me about your idea