Business Databases

Email questions to: david.flynn@hawaii.edu

David Flynn
Business/Social Sciences Librarian

I am a reference librarian with more than 33 years of professional experience in academic libraries in the US and Japan. I serve as liaison to the Shidler College of Business and the Department of Economics.

I earned my business degree at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and my master's degree in library science at Indiana University, Bloomington. I earned a second master's degree in communication and a graduate certificate in telecommunications and information resource management from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. 

My professional career started at Indiana University where I served as the Technical Services Coordinator for the 12 Halls of Residence Libraries (HRL) and later as Visiting Assistant Librarian for Undergraduate Collections and HRL Coordinator. Subsequent positions included my appointment as Director of the Library at Huron International University in Tokyo, Japan and briefly as the Interim Head of the Asia Collection in UH Mānoa's Hamilton Library. 

I have served in several leadership appointments for national and regional professional associations, including multiple times as chair of the Business Reference Sources Committee in the American Library Association. I am published in Library and Information Science Research, Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship, and Reference & User Services Quarterly.