Libraries supporting start ups, entrepreneurs and jobseekers across the north west
Hear from Corin Bland from Bottle, and Matthew Kendall from airTeem.
Find out how their businesses benefitted from using the service in different ways. Could yours?

Industry Guides
From Advertising to TV & Film:
20 new Industry Guides to help you find the information you need.
NEW! Resources for Jobseekers

Start Up? Start Here
Join your local library and get instant access to COBRA - the Complete Business Reference Advisor. Use it in the library, at home, or on the move.

IP For Business Tools
A range of online tools to help you understand, identify, protect & exploit your intellectual property assets to their maximum potential.
Our service
Ask About Business is a partnership between eleven library authorities across the north west.
Led by Manchester Libraries, Information & Archives service, Ask About Business provides information through libraries to support:
- Pre-start and new businesses
- SMEs
- Jobseekers
- Consumers
- Inventors
- Business students