Programs & Services: Overview
The Business Library offers dozens of programs a year to assist with business start-up and expansion, resource navigation, and financial
and investment education. Combined with thousands of resources at the Business Library, these programs supplement existing resources and provide
an alternative learning experience for the public. Program attendees receive the added benefit of networking with other small business owners
and entrepreneurs. All programs are free to the public.
Held each spring, the Financial Series outlines the different forms of personal investments
that are available and how to evaluate the best investment options for you.
Con Edison has partnered with Brooklyn Public Library to produce the popular Power Breakfast Series since 1997. Organized under the title
Made in Brooklyn, these free programs promote growing businesses in Brooklyn and provide opportunities for you to network and exchange
information. Past programs have focused on a variety of industries, including hospitality and food packaging, film and music, and manufacturing
and retail.
The Business Library produces this annual Entrepreneur Series that gives many potential, new and existing business owners the opportunity
to learn directly from an entrepreneur who has gone before them and taken the risks to build a business. Speakers empower entrepreneurs by
sharing their business start-up stories. Now in its fifth year, this series has drawn hundreds of entrepreneurs into the Library to listen
to lessons learned by entrepreneurs who have realized their dream of small business ownership. Entrepreneurs who have presented their stories
range from Earl Graves, publisher of Black Enterprise magazine; Tom Potter, President of Brooklyn Brewery; and Le Cirque's pastry chef Jacques
Torres, now owner of Jacques Torres Chocolates.
As part of the series, the Business Library hosts an Entrepreneur Fair. This fair features an expo where organizations that support
entrepreneur activities distribute information and speak with potential small business owners.
The Business Library partners with the New York City College of Technology to present technology seminars. With the expansion of
technology at an accelerated pace, small businesses need insight into what would actually bring their office greater efficiency at
the least expense. This program presents the latest technologies through demonstrations and a lecture on the benefits and constraints
of each. Programs include the advancement of cellular communication, palm pilot organizing, Internet bandwidth technologies and
software options for small business.
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