The publication first ponders on careers, dictionaries and encyclopedias, and libraries and guides to libraries. Discussions focus on guides to the resources of libraries, Banking Information Service, Bank Education Service, education and examinations in America, sources of information on careers, finance houses, joint stock banking, foreign and merchant banks, and the London Stock Exchange.

The text then takes a look at bibliographies and literature guides, periodical literature, financial economics, banks and banking, and central banking classification. Topics include library catalogues, guides to reference works, periodicals concerned with banking and finance, money and banking in the United States, financial institutions and economic development, banking in Europe, European Economic Community, and banking in the United States. The book takes a look at interest and discount, credit and instruments of credit, foreign and overseas investment, and merchant and investment banking.

The publication is a dependable source of information for researchers and bankers wanting to explore banking and investment.

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Introduction
1 Careers
2 Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
3 Libraries and Guides to Libraries
4 Bibliographies and Literature Guides
5 Periodical Literature
6 Financial Economics (Dewey Classification 332)
7 Banks and Banking (Dewey Classification 332.1)
8 Central Banking (Dewey Classification 332.11)
9 Commercial Banks (Dewey Classification 332.12)
10 International Monetary Relations (Dewey Classification 332.15)
11 Multiple, Branch, and Chain Banking (Dewey Classification 332.16)
12 Banking Practice(Dewey Classification 332.17)
13 Savings Banks (Dewey Classification 332.2)
14 Credit and Loan Institutions (Dewey Classification 332.3)
15 Money and Monetary Theory (Dewey Classification 332.4)
16 Value and Volume Fluctuations (Dewey Classification 332.413 and 332.414)
17 Monetary Standards (Dewey Classification 332.42)
18 Foreign Exchange (Dewey Classification 332.45)
19 Monetary History (Dewey Classification 332.49)
20 Investment Services and Reference Works (Dewey Classification 332.6)
21 Investment Finance (Dewey Classification 332.6)
22 The Stock Market and the Stock Exchange (Dewey Classification 332.61)
23 Merchant and Investment Banking (Dewey Classification 332.66)
24 Foreign and Overseas Investment (Dewey Classification 332.673)
25 Credit and Instruments of Credit (Dewey Classification 332.7)
26 Interest and Discount (Dewey Classification 332.8)
27 Law (Dewey Classification 340)
Appendixes
1 Proceedings of the International Banking Summer Schools
2 Societies and Institutions
Index