Stock Quotes and Antique Prices at the Rapid City Library

By Morgan Sohl, Adult Services Librarian

The Rapid City Public Library is happy to announce that we are unveiling two amazing new research tools to our patrons for the New Year–Value Line and Price It. 

Value Line provides investors with the most accurate and independently created research information available. It is an objective and unbiased research company that collects data and analyzes performance of approximately 8,000 stocks, 15,000 mutual funds, 80,000 options as well as other securities. Value Line also teaches new investors how to use the tools it provides effectively in order to meet their financial objectives.

The Value Line database includes the Value Line Investment Survey, which was recently rated by Hulbert as number 1 among 165 research newsletters for risk adjusted gains during the last 20 years. The survey is one of the most widely read independent investment services in the world.  Its coverage of up-to-date issues is a comprehensive reference that has useful information for virtually every investor. In breadth of coverage it is encyclopedic, covering some 1,700 equity issues. Every week, about 135 stocks in seven or eight industries are covered.

Along with the stock market, the antiques and collectibles market is one of the fastest growing markets in the U.S., with an estimated 30 percent of the population collecting something. I still have boxes of comic books, old toys as well as a small collection of antique pocket watches from my father sitting in my attic. By and large these items sit and collect dust while I wait for “Antiques Roadshow” to come to town and appraise these items for free. And I have always been unsure about asking a store about the worth of these items since I am unsure if I can trust the resulting estimate. 

With Price It! Antiques and Collectibles offered by Gale Databases and now accessible through the Rapid City Public Library, I can use the ‘value maximizer’ to determine the worth of my attic full of stuff. I can get an averaged quote of my collectibles worth through Price It’s ability to average data from its own database as well as eBay and dozens of land-based auction houses. The database currently has over 23 million prices realized for art, antiques and collectibles in more than 100 categories and subcategories with over 10 million images.

You can now have the best information from around the world for stocks and for antiques through the Rapid City Public Library or remotely from your own home.   

Visit www.rapidcitylibrary.org and click on the Databases tab. From there you can access our full line of databases. Click on “V” for Value Line or “P” for Price It and get started on your own research!  If you do not have a library card then please feel free to come into either the Rapid City Public Library Downtown or North (located in General Beadle School) and get signed up for one today.