(Marvellous) Libraries in Yorkshire

Finbar Cullen | 3 July 2009 | Blogs

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Never mind about the marvellous libraries in and around London. I was in Leeds this week, talking to people at the Institute of Fundraising, Yorkshire, about prospect research. Well of course that involved looking t what local libraries had to offer.

I used the website for Public Libraries on the Web and had a quick look at some of the libraries in the bigger cities, and found some great resources. Leeds has KnowUK, Who’s Who and Who was Who (available from home/work, etc., with your library card number), and the Leeds Business and Research Library has MINT. York has NewsUK, Credo Reference (formerly Xreferplus, available from home/work, etc), and is considering subscribing to a company information database (FAME) in 2010. Sheffield has Credo Reference, NewsUK (available from home/work, etc), and allows visitors to use FAME.

Good stuff!

Finbar Cullen

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About Finbar Cullen
Finbar Cullen established ResearchPlus in 2005 to provide fundraising research services for the not-for-profit sector. He researches people, companies and grant-making trusts and foundations, mostly in the UK, but also other parts of the world. Finbar has published directories of “unpublished” grant-making trusts (registered with the Charity Commission and with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator), and each month he contributes to The Trust List, highlighting newly registered grant-making trusts worthy of particularly close attention.