ask about business

Libraries supporting start ups, entrepreneurs and jobseekers across the north west

Our video about the Business & IP Centre Manchester features some of our customers from across the region.

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?

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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

Where you can find information

If you don't know where to start, your local library service can help. Or you can email your enquiry to businessinfo@manchester.gov.uk or call 0161 234 1991.

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