The FIT Library has excellent Research Guides available online at www3.fitnyc.edu/library/research_guides.

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GENERAL

• Link to the FIT Library's extensive Career bibliography

• Link to the NYPL (New York Public Library) Science, Industry and Business Library Resources

• Link to www.bls.gov/oco published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives. The Handbook describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations.

• Links to websites with Summer Job Listings - click here

• Link to the FIT Library's Career Internet Guide

FASHION - GENERAL

• Link to www.infomat.com Fashion Industry Information Services and Search Engine.

• Link to the FIT Library's Fashion Subject Guide

• Link to www.fgi.org The Fashion Group International is a global non-profit association of over 6,000 professionals of achievement and influence representing all areas of the fashion, apparel, accessories, beauty and home industries.

• Link to www.fashioncenter.com The Fashion Center Business Improvement District's web site and an excellent fashion resource in NYC.

• Link to www.just-style.com the online portal for apparel/textile industry professionals around the world.

• Link to www.genart.org Gen Art is the leading arts and entertainment organization dedicated to showcasing emerging fashion designers, filmmakers, musicians and visual artists.

• Link to the FIT Library's Fashion Merchandising Management Subject Guide

• Link to the FIT Library's Textile Subject Guide

ART AND DESIGN

• Link to www.portfolios.com the online source for creative talent.

• Link to www.genart.org Gen Art is the leading arts and entertainment organization dedicated to showcasing emerging fashion designers, filmmakers, musicians and visual artists.

• Link to www.vlany.org, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts provides of pro bono legal services, education and advocacy to the New York arts community.

• Link to www.nyfa.org/source The New York Foundation for the Arts provides a free national resource for visual, media, performing, and literary artists and for those who support them in any way.

• Link to the FIT Library's The Business of Art & Design bibliography

ADVERTISING AND MARKETING

• Link to www.mediabistro.com a web site dedicated to everyone who creates or works with content, or who is a non-creative professional working in a content/creative industry. This includes editors, writers, television producers, graphic designers, book publishers, people in production, and circulation departments — in industries including magazines, television, radio, newspapers, book publishing, online media, advertising, PR, and graphic design.

DNR News is the leading news magazine of men's fashion and retail, published every Monday. It provides news, in-depth features and market reports on men's wear retailing, design trends, apparel and textiles. Among the DNR readership are senior retail managers, buyers, merchandisers, designers, and key executives in the retail, apparel, textile, fiber, financial and advertising industries.

Just-Style.com The online portal for apparel/textile industry professionals around the world.  Just-style.com has developed into one of the most respected and fastest growing apparel/textile trade sites around.

WWD Often called "the fashion bible," Womens' Wear Daily serves as the voice of authority, international newswire and agent of change for the fashion, beauty and retail industries.