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The downtown branch of the Forsyth County Public Library seems far removed from the campus of Wake Forest University and the ZSR Library; but a one day training session downtown was a real “field trip” for me, Mary Scanlon and Lauren Pressley. The topic was STAT-USA. This online data base is one filled with numbers, numbers and more numbers. It is an invaluable source for business and economic students and a real resource for those librarians who provide assistance to them.
Several points of interest in this resource include economic reports from the State of the Nation Library, International Trade Library, and the country reports that include everything you would ever need to know about a country. The import and export portion of the database provides graphs that change from charts to graphs with the click of a mouse. You can even check the ports in each state, including the port in North Carolina called Winston-Salem.