Rural and small public libraries provide invaluable services to their communities. These information institutions operate in areas that, when compared to national averages, have poor broadband accessibility and weaker connection speeds, low home internet adoption rates, higher unemployment...

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Business Services and the Mission of the Library -- 2. Collection Development: Tools of the Trade -- 3. Programming: Opening the Doors -- 4. Marketing: Getting the Word Out -- 5. Networking: Meeting and Greeting -- 6. The Power...

The literature on the internationalisation of firms has paid little attention to SMEs. SME-oriented studies are predominantly descriptive or illustrating theoretical arguments, and those dealing with services are mostly confined to specific industries. The paper aims at correcting some of these...

What determines small businesses' recourse to public support measures during the Covid-19 crisis? We analyse this question using a survey of 1,011 self-employed workers and small business owners in Switzerland, linked to information pre-dating the crisis. We find that "objective" measures of...