E-Fredericksburg is an idea whose time has come!

Everybody's getting wired—including the library! For a taste of where we're headed and how other communities have made it happen, take a look at Andrew Michael Cohill's Community Networks : Lessons from Blacksburg, Virginia or New Community Networks : Wired for Change by Douglas Schuler.

Chamber members should be aware of two wonderful resources available at the Central Rappahannock Regional Library's website, at www.crrl.org in the "Reference Room:"

All you need is your library barcode number to use both of these services from your desktop.

The business community might well profit from the following books that purport to unveil the commercial secrets of cyberspace:

121 Internet Businesses You Can Start from Home : Plus a Beginner's Guide to Starting a Business Online by Ron E. Gielgun

Business @ the Speed of Thought : Using a Digital Nervous System by Bill Gates

The Digital Estate : Strategies for Competing, Surviving, and Thriving in an Internetworked World by Chuck Martin

Digital Money : The New Era of Internet Commerce by Daniel C. Lynch

Doing Business on the Internet : How the Electronic Highway Is Transforming American Companies by Mary J. Cronin

Essential Business Tactics for the Net by Larry Chase

Hyperwars : Eleven Strategies for Survival and Profit in the Era of Online Business by Bruce Judson

State of the Net : The New Frontier by Peter C. Clemente

Webonomics : Nine Essential Principles for Growing Your Business on the World Wide Web by Evan I. Schwartz.

All of these guides to—and strategies for achieving profitability from—the new business environment are yours to borrow from your public library.

Use our Web Pac to reserve these titles or visit any of our branches to check them out today.

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