LibGuides: Personal Finance: Personal Finance

Books

The Financial Diet: A Total Beginner's Guide to Getting Good With Money by Chelsea Fagan; Lauren ver Hage
Call Number: 332.024 F151f
Publication Date: 2018
The art of money: a life-changing guide to financial happiness by Bari Tessler
Call Number: 332.024 P581d
Publication Date: 2016
Unshakable: Your Financial Freedom Playbook by Tony Robbins
Call Number: 332.024 R632u
Publication Date: 2017
Mind Over Money: The Psychology of Money and How To Use It Better by Claudia Hammond
Call Number: 332.401 H225m
Publication Date: 2016
Personal Finance 101 by Alfred Mill; Michele Cagan
Call Number: 332.024 M645p
Publication Date: 2020
Happy Go Money by Melissa Leong
Call Number: 332.024 L583h
Publication Date: 2019
Get It Together by Melanie Cullen; Shae Irving
Call Number: 332.024 C967g
Publication Date: 2016

EBooks

EBooks are electronic books. You can download ebooks through the library's wesbite. Visit our downloadable media page to learn more about the process. You can read ebooks on a variety of devices - you can read them off the computer, on a tablet (like iPad), an iPhone, on a smartphone (with Android), and of course, on most ereaders. Take books with you wherever you go!

The Family Nest Egg by Laura Meier
Publication Date: 2021
Rich Dad Poor Dad What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! by Robert T. Kiyosaki
Publication Date: 2012

Basic Banking, Money Education, and Budgeting Websites

Free Money Tutorials
The Goodwill Community Foundation has created these well-organized, easy-to-use, self-paced online tutorials. Choose from subjects like "Money Basics" or "Pay Bills"
360 Degrees of Financial Literacy
This website was developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants to help Americans understand their personal finances through every stage of life.
Bankrate
Bankrate provides free rate information to consumers on more than 300 financial products, including mortgages, credit cards, new and used automobile loans, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, checking and ATM fees, home equity loans and online banking fees.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
The FDIC provides resources to educate and protect consumers about banks, internet banking, loans, mortgages and fraud protection.
Help with My Bank
Created by the US Department of the Treasury, this site reinforces fair consumer treatment and answers questions on credit cards, mortgages and loans.
Money Essentials
CNN Money provides 23 lessons in this step-by-step guide to gaining control of your financial life.
MyMoney
MyMoney.gov is the U.S. government's website dedicated to teaching all Americans the basics about financial education. It is designed to help you make smart money decisions.
Smart About Money
The National Endowment for Financial Education provides practical help and resources for making sound financial choices.
Better Money Habits
A partnership between the Khan Academy and Bank of America, the site BetterMoneyHabits.com® is a free service that enables everyone to understand finances through objective and unbiased videos and tools.

Online Personal Finance Lessons!

Universal Class
continuing education classes. With your library card, you can take up to 5 classes at a time. Register now to sign-up - you can begin at any time. You can take classes such as:

Budgeting and Saving 101

Credit Report and Repair

Retirement Planning 101

Personal Finance 101: How to Manage Your Money

And many more! To begin, select the link above. Create an account. Browse the "Finance" category and sign-up for a class.

Library Resources

Data Axle Reference Solutions (formerly Reference USA)
Reference USA is a comprehensive business directory. Use it to search for banks, certified financial planners, or other finance professionals near you.
Legal Forms
Thousands of Colorado-specific and national legal forms spanning a variety of common concerns (bankruptcy, divorce, employment, landlord tenant, living wills, power of attorney, taxes, etc.).

Business Research Guide
A resource guide for entrepreneurs and small businesses.
Legal Research Guide - Financial Hardships
This page of our Legal guide has legal information, books and forms on bankruptcy and foreclosure.
Get a Library Card
Sign up for a Mesa County library card. Required to use several online sources.

Magazines

Keep up to date on money topics with these magazines, which can be checked out from the library, with the exception of the most current issue:

Barron's

Economist

Forbes

Investor's Business Daily

Kiplinger's Personal Finance

Kiplinger's Retirement Report

Money

Wall Street Journal

Book a librarian

Book a Librarian - Mesa County Libraries
Reference Librarians are available by appointment for help with business, genealogy, health, local history, computer, book and author questions and more. Book an individualized 30 minute appointment.