
education:
... a category of location
data under which you find information about schools and institutions
of higher learning in a locale. See
the definition of educational
institution.

Public Schools
Directory.com shows an example education information provided online
by the sponsor of one of the .network Regional
Site Selection Directory files. The example is titled Public
Schools in Atlanta. It has a sidebar of links to information
for Bartow County schools, Cherokee County schools,
Cobb County schools,
Dawson County schools, Dekalb County schools, Douglas County schools,
Forsyth County schools, Fulton County schools, Gwinnett County schools,
Hall County
schools, Lumpkin County schools, Pickins County schools and Pauldin County
schools. In this case, the location
data supplier is a consortium of real estate professionals working
through GetReal
Media.

higher education:
... a category of location
data under which you find information about the institutions
of higher
learning in an area. Examples
of the types of institutions listed under the category are universities,
junior colleges, community colleges, trade
schools, and technical
schools.

Institutions of higher education may have outreach programs for community
and economic development as well as enterprise development in their regions.
For example: development services for small business are
operated in conjunction with universities throughout North America. The .network resource
archive has suggestions for searching the Web to find business services in
a place of interest to you. Incubators for
starting
up new ventures can be found on college campuses, often tied to
research. Community colleges, trade schools and technical schools usually
focus the job local job market. Workforce development is a category of location
data found in community
profiles along with education and
higher education.
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libraries:
... are classified as location data suppliers by
The Network. Look on page
4 of the series about economic development in the Economic
Development Network website.
In our (who we are)
efforts to assist enterprise
developers and site
selectors who ask us to
deliver on the
search promise
of The Network, we often turn to local public libraries
for guidance on how to contact area
and local economic development representatives. Librarians
who know their communities have often given us the direction we've
needed when for whatever reason contacts
are difficult to find. Users
of The
Network have
found community
profiles available at public library as well
as
local
college
or university library websites.

Use the search engine at the top of this page to
find a library online for a place
of interest. Following are italicized suggestions for you
can copy and paste (keep quotation marks intact).
Substitute
a location identity for the word location. Ask
for free personal search assistance if your query of the Web doesn't produce satisfactory
results or in the event there is a problem.
Search the Web for: location "economic development"
information contact

Search the Web for: location "economic development" information
library

Search the Web for: location "site selection" information
contact

Search the Web for: location "site selection" information
library

Search the Web for: location "community profile" library

Search the Web for: location information library local
area links.
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