"Company" Research

Library and/or Institution Website
Some things to look for:

• Mission
• Annual report
• News
• Strategic plan
• Programs/events
• Staff list
• Topic guides (to get a sense of patrons' needs)
• Resources page and catalog -- do they have enough databases? does the print collection seem current? etc.
• Jobs/HR page -- how many other openings? benefits? etc.

County or city website (for public libraries)
College website (for academic libraries)
Company or organization website (for special libraries)

News search

• Databases such as Newspaper Source
  (available at BPL -- http://search3.webfeat.org/BostonSearch.asp?cat=dbnewspapers)
• Google News
  http://news.google.com
• Local newspaper websites (See "US Newspaper List" -- http://www.usnpl.com/.)

Literature search
Check Expanded Academic, Library Literature (available at Simmons on-site), etc. for articles by the director or other librarians at the institution.

Public opinion

• Search newsgroup discussion at Google Groups (http://groups.google.com/.
• Search "forums" on the local Craigslist page.
  (http://www.craigslist.org/about/cities.html)