Small Business Center - 4th Floor

The Small Business Center strives to meet the needs of the entrepreneur by providing materials on how to plan, finance, organize, operate and market a small business. Considerable support for library materials relating to small business was provided over the years by grants from the Fuhrman Fund.

Collections and Services Available

• Staff and information services available at the Business, Science and Technology Center

• Business Databases

• Business and Start-up Resources

• Common Law Trademark Sources

• Entrepreneur start-up manuals

• Market Research Resources

• Restaurant business information

Helpful online resources accessible through the library's online catalog terminals:

• Office of Small Business - City and County of San Francisco

• Small Business Assistance Center - City and County of San Francisco

• California Business Search

• Guidestar - nonprofit information 

• San Francisco Fictitious Business Search

• Small Business Administration, San Francisco

• San Francisco SCORE

• Renaissance Center

• San Francisco Business Portal