About the Project
The Informed Succes: A Comprehensive Guide to Knowledge, Resources, and Opportunities for Student Entrepreneurs is sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) Carnegie-Whitney Grant, which provides grants for the preparation of popular or scholarly reading lists, webliographies, indexes, and other guides to library resources that will be useful to users of all types of libraries in the United States.
Project Deliverables
Informed Success: A Bibliography for Student Entrepreneurs (Library Guide)
WorldCat Book List (457 Book List)
Exploring the information needs of student entrepreneurs: A meta-narrative synthesis (Scholarly Article)
Project Team
Grace Liu, Assistant Professor, Business Librarian at West Chester University (Project Director), supervised the project, identified the 457 book titles, developed the 43 topic taxonomy through the publication "Exploring the information needs of student entrepreneurs: A meta-narrative synthesis," compiled over 1,500 online resources, and designed the project website.
Monica Zimmerman, Ph.D., CPA, Executive Director of the Dr. Edwin Cottrell Entrepreneurial Leadership Center at West Chester University (Project Consultant), offered entrepreneurship expertise to advise this project and helped recruit student assistants.
Sarah Corapi, the Library Assistant at West Chester University, contributed significant effort in building the Informed Success: A Bibliography for Student Entrepreneurs Library Guide and supervised the student assistant in building the WorldCat Book List (457 book titles).
Hally Everett, Student Assistant, built the Worldcat Book List and identified the ISBN and Worldcat Permalink for the Library Guide.
Gabriella Velazquez, Graduate Student Assistant, contributed great effort in helping identify online sources and build the project website.