... 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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