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Follow the quick links below for library reading materials on Smart Investing class topics.
Foundations for Financial Plans
The Principles of Saving and Investing
Developing a Plan to Reach Your Goals
Understanding Credit: The good, the bad, and the ugly
Saving and Investing for Retirement and Post Secondary Education
Using Online Financial Management and Investing Tools
Teaching Your Children Financial Skills for Life
Protecting Your Assets
You can click here to view a calendar of PLS SmartMoney Programs
Foundations for Financial Plans – Values, Goals and Asset Building
Participants will explore asset building as the road to economic security and wealth building as well as their own financial values and goals. This provides the foundation for saving and investing as well as making and keeping a budget.
Money wise: how to create, grow, and preserve your wealth. Lipper, A. Michael.
Call Number 332.024 LI
Easy money: how to simplify your finances and get what you want out of life. Weston, Liz Pulliam.
Call Number 332.024 WE
An average person's guide to personal finance: a computer program and guide to managing money. Edwards, Michael. Edwards, Jennifer.
Call Number 332.024 ED
Budgeting and debt management : advice from finance industry experts about personal and family finances, banking, handling money, building and using credit, borrowing, debt, and recovery from financial difficulty. Bellenir, Karen.
Call Number 332.024 BU
Let's get real about money! : profit from the habits of the best personal finance managers. Tyson, Eric (Eric Kevin).
Call Number 332.024 TY
The Principles of Saving and Investing
Most people want to save and invest, but they don’t know where to begin. This session will provide participants with an overview of ten key principles of investing. This program will also have you leaving the session with an understanding the different types of saving and investing vehicles as well as how to find more information in the library.
The barefoot investor: five steps to financial freedom in your 20s and 30s. Pape, Scott.
Call Number 332.024 PA
All about bonds, bond mutual funds, and bond ETFs. Faerber, Esme.
Call Number 332.63 FA
The intelligent portfolio: practical wisdom on personal investing from Financial Engines. Jones, Christopher L.
Call Number 332.6 JO
Investing in an uncertain economy for dummies. Garrett, Sheryl.
Call Number 332.6 GA
Green investing: a guide to making money through environment-friendly stocks. Uldrich, Jack.
Call Number 332.604 UL
Developing a Plan to Reach Your Goals: Making a budget that works
People often know what they want, but have a hard time figuring out how to use their money to get there. Developing a plan will help participants understand the budgeting process so they can create a budget to reach their goals. One can examine ways to cut spending so they can dedicate more of their hard earned income to their goals through saving and investing.
The Everything budgeting book: practical advice for spending less, increasing savings, and having more money for the things you really want. Stouffer, Tere.
Call Number 332.024 ST
One year to an organized life: from your closets to your finances, the week by week guide to getting completely organized for good. Leeds, Regina.
Call Number 648.8 LE
Can I pay my credit card bill with a credit card? : and other financial questions we're too embarrassed to ask! Hunt, Mary.
Call Number 332.024 HU
Living rich by spending smart: how to get more of what you really want. Karp, Gregory.
Call Number 332.024 KA
Personal finance workbook for dummies. Garrett, Sheryl.
Call Number 332.024 GA
Understanding Credit: The good, the bad, and the ugly
Credit is a tool that can help business grow, young people finance education and families buy homes. But often, people get into trouble with credit stemming from a lack of understanding about the way credit actually works. Understanding credit will help people understand credit scores, credit reports, how to use it and avoid having problems with it.
The 5-minute debt solution: get out fast and stay out forever. Hendrickson, Chris P.
Call Number 332.024 HE
The Complete idiot’s guide to improving your credit score. Epstein, Linda.
Call Number 332.743 EP
The credit repair answer book. Nickel, Gudrun.
Call Number 332.743 NI
Why smart people do stupid things with money: overcoming financial dysfunction. Whitehead, Bert.
Call Number 332.024 WH
Maxed out: hard times, easy credit, and the era of predatory lenders. Scurlock, James.
Call Number 332.743 SC
Saving and Investing for Retirement and Post Secondary Education
Building on the principles of investing will delve into saving and investing vehicles specifically designed for financing post secondary education and retirement. Participants will also learn ways to anticipate their financial needs for post secondary education and retirement and will be introduced to a variety of online tools as well as the library system’s resources.
Are you a stock or a bond? : create your own pension plan for a secure financial future. Milevsky, Moshe Arye.
Call Number 332.024 MI
The Reinventing retirement: 389 bright ideas about family, friends, health, what to do, and where to live. Goodman, Miriam (Miriam Elaine).
Call Number 646.79 GO
Retire Happy: what you can do now to guarantee a great retirement. Stim, Richard. Warner, Ralph E.
Call Number 646.79 ST.
Paying for college without going broke. Chany, Kalman A.
Call Number 378.3 PA
Straight talk on paying for college: lowering the cost of higher education. Anderson, Trent and Seppy Basili.
Call Number 378.3 AN
Using Online Financial Management and Investing Tools
The internet has led to the development of hundreds if not thousands of sites dedicated to personal finance. Sorting through this morass can be challenging to say the least. This program will highlight the websites, online investing tools and online calculators that can help anyone with financial planning.
Navigating the financial blogosphere: how to benefit from free information on the internet. Bailyn, Russell.
Call Number 332.024 BA
The intelligent portfolio: practical wisdom on personal investing from financial engines. Jones, Christopher L.
Call Number 332.6 JO
Dear Mr. Buffett: what an investor learns 1,269 miles from Wall Street. Tavakoli, Janet M.
Call Number 332.6 TA
Yes, you can supercharge your portfolio! : six steps for investing success in the 21st century. Stein, Benjamin, DeMuth, Phil.
Call Number 332.6 ST
The 21st century economy: a beginner's guide: with 101 easy-to-master tools for surviving and thriving in the new global market place. Epping, Randy Charles.
Call Number 330.9 EP
Teaching Your Children Financial Skills for Life
When it comes to financial management, one thing all parents have in common in wanting to ensure their children have financial skills for life. Sadly, financial education is not systemically provided in the public education system in the U.S. This presentation will provide parents with children from preschool through teen years with age appropriate financial competencies as well as activities. This session is only for parents—not for parents and children.
It's not what you've got: lessons for kids on money and abundance. Dyer, Wayne W. Tracy, Kristina. Budnick, Stacy Heller.
Call Number 332.024 DY
Cash and ATMs. Houghton, Gillian.
Call Number 332.4 HO
Using money at the lemonade stand. Rauen, Amy. Pickering, Russell.
Call Number 513.211 RA
How banks work. Houghton, Gillian.
Call Number 332.1 HO
How credit cards work. Houghton, Gillian.
Call Number 332.765 HO
Protecting Your Assets
People work hard for the things they own. But often, they leave these items under-protected. This workshop will focus on ways to protect your assets—from your identity and credit history to your home and its contents.
The cure for money madness: break your bad money habits, live without financial stress--and make more money! Sherman, Spencer D.
Call Number 332.024 SH
The great depression of debt: survival techniques for every investor. Brussee, Warren.
Call Number 332.6 BR
The modern rules of personal finance for professionals. Berson, Susan A.
Call Number 332.024 BE
Safe money in tough times: everything you need to know to survive the financial crisis. Pond, Jonathan
Call Number D. 332.024 PO
The ultimate depression survival guide: protect your savings, boost your income, and grow wealthy even in the worst of times. Weiss, Martin D.
Call Number 332.67 WE
