A reception scheduled at Purdue University’s Hicks Undergraduate Library for the “American Presidents: Life Portraits” exhibit, scheduled to begin at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday (Feb. 9) has been canceled due to the weather. “American Presidents: Life Portraits” will be on display in the library through Feb. 21.
Writer: Jim Bush, (765) 494-2077, jsbush@purdue.edu
Source: Kayla Gregory, Marketing Associate for Purdue Libraries, 765-496-9610, kgregory@purdue.edu
Welcome to Database of the Week — a feature from the Management & Economics Library (MEL). These database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources.
This Week’s Featured Database: SourceOECD, from the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development.
Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/mel, in the pull down Quick Access to Business Databases alpha list right below the Libraries’ search box.
Description/focus: SourceOECD offers statistics and full text books and reports from the OECD, whose focus is the world economy.
Start with this hint: The SourceOECD opening page has the search field for a simple search which will look for your term in resource titles and abstracts. If your subject is a phrase, be sure to use quotation marks: water policies will give different results from “water policies.” If you choose All publications for your simple search, the results will include book sections as well as working papers and periodicals. Choose the Advanced Search option if you want to expand your search to the full text. The opening webpage has new publications and popular resources such as the OECD Economic Outlook Data, but a better way to browse is to select one of the tabs across the top, especially Books, Periodicals, Statistics, or Working Papers. The statistical databases in SourceOECD cover national accounts, economic indicators, trade, employment, migration, education, energy, and health.
Why you should know this database: The reports and statistics in SourceOECD cover key areas of the financial sector, the real economy, social policy, environment, development and innovation in both member and non-member countries. The OECD is also monitoring the impact of the current world financial crisis on developing countries.
How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: SourceOECD addresses regional issues in Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia-Pacific. The organization covers economic and social trends, from the labor force in persistently poor areas to the innovation and growth of the Internet economy.
Cost: $12,749.00 paid by the Libraries annually. For more information contact mdugan@purdue.edu.
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The Management & Economics Library (MEL) will be hosting a series of business-themed games throughout the month of February, leading up to Purdue’s third Digital Literacy Contest at the end of the month.
Each event begins at 6:00 p.m. in Krannert 250 (Learn Lab) and is open to all Purdue students. Participants are asked to register by emailing kranlib@purdue.edu. Refreshments will be served, and prizes provided for the winner of each game.
Wednesday, February 3 – Lemonade Stand Contest
Lemonade Stand is an online game that tests one’s business skills. The player controls the price, the lemonade recipe, supplies, and deals with the unpredictable weather. The players’ goal is to maximize customer satisfaction, inventory, and price. The player with the highest profit wins.
Wednesday, February 10 – Coffee Shop Contest
Players purchase supplies, create their own recipe, set their price, and start selling. Players can keep an eye on what potential customers think and adjust prices to maximize profits. The player with highest profit wins.
Tuesday, February 16 – Net Acquire
Players try to maximize wealth by investing in hotel chains in this high-finance electronic board game that includes elements of strategy, some luck, and a little cut throat instinct.
The Digital Literacy Contest will be held on Wednesday, February 24. This contest is a high-speed battle of minds to find information using the internet. Created by Purdue student Daniel Poynter in 2007, players are given 30 minutes, a seat at a computer, and a list of questions to answer by searching online. Registration for this event will be handled separately. Watch for more publicity for the Digital Literacy Contest with registration information.
Welcome to Database of the Week — a feature from the Management & Economics Library (MEL). These database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources.
This Week’s Featured Database: IBISWorld, from IBISWorld.
Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/mel, in the pull down Quick Access to Business Databases alpha list right below the Libraries’ search box.
Description/focus: IBISWorld provides access to domestic and global industry reports.
Start with this hint: The IBISWorld opening page lets you select a search box for a key word, links to domestic Industry Market Research, Global Industry Research, and Business Environment, or scroll through the reports listed by SIC code. A key word search for a company will generate a list of all the industry reports and Business Environment reports that name that company. As an example, enter steel in the search box and select one of the listed market reports, such as Iron and steel manufacturing in the US to see the major players; sections of the report are on the left. The entire report can be downloaded in either PDF or MSWord or the sections can be viewed separately. Go back to the list of steel reports and select from the Business Environment reports for historical analysis, trends, and outlook.
Why you should know this database: MEL has subscribed to IBISWorld US reports for 2 years, but the Global Industry Research reports are a recent purchase, added just this week. Reports are updated 3 to 4 times a year with additional updates to reflect important changes in an industry’s market.
How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: The IBISWorld industry intelligence reports include a section called Market Characteristics which illustrates how industries are connected. For example, the above named report, Iron and steel manufacturing in the US, provides links to reports on 8 industries that depend on steel manufacture and 3 industries that supply to the steel industry.
Cost: $9,800.00, an academic subscription paid by the Libraries annually.
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If you would like us to promote your favorite database, send an email to mdugan@purdue.edu.
The Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) has agreed to acquire the complete ScienceDirect eBooks collections through Elsevier for 2008, 2009, and 2010, in addition to Wiley-Blackwell eBook titles covering the 2008 and 2009 publishing years.
As a result, libraries and patrons in CIC member institutions – including Purdue – will be able to access over 1,300 titles across 18 science, technical and medical subject areas through Science Direct, and approximately 2,200 titles through Wiley-Blackwell.
In addition to Purdue, CIC member institutions include Indiana University, Michigan State University, Northwestern University, Pennsylvania State University, University of Illinois, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Access to these eBook collections provides member patrons with access in the library or remotely, any time, as well as powerful search and browse tools.
At Purdue, the collection will soon be available through the Purdue Libraries catalog, searchable on the Purdue Libraries homepage at www.lib.purdue.edu or by visiting http://catalog.lib.purdue.edu.
Investing in eBook collections supports the Purdue Libraries initiatives to move towards more digital resources and to look for cost-effective alternatives to acquiring and owning printed materials.
CIC chose to acquire the eBooks collections based in part on a careful analysis of current ebook usage among consortium member institutions. Participating schools found “that when they worked together to make a critical mass of content accessible, it was immediately noticed and used by faculty and students,” said Kim Armstrong, Assistant Director, CIC Center for Library Initiatives.
For more information:
Sources: PRNewswire and CLI e-News
The weekly February Books and Coffee series will feature books from the 21st century that focus on coming of age in the United States, a theme driven by Purdue’s first Common Reading selection, which will open the series on Feb. 4.
The 60th annual Books and Coffee, which is free and open to the public, will take place in Stewart Center, Rooms 302/306. The event begins at 4 p.m. when tea, coffee and hot cocoa are available. The talks by faculty members begin at 4:30 p.m., and the event concludes at 5 p.m. with a free drawing for prizes, including books and sweatshirts donated by local merchants.
The 2010 discussions will include:
* Feb. 4. Barbara Dixon, associate dean for the College of Liberal Arts, will talk about Bich Minh Nguyen’s “Stealing Buddha’s Dinner.” The book was selected for Purdue’s first Common Reading program, and a copy of the book was given to each incoming freshman. After the talk, author Bich Nguyen, also a Purdue faculty member, will be available to sign her recently released “Short Girls.” Copies will be available to purchase through Von’s Bookstore.
* Feb. 11. Donald Platt, poet and professor of English, will talk about Annie Proulx’s most recent book “Fine Just the Way It Is, Wyoming Stories 3.” Proulx, also author of the short story that inspired the film “Brokeback Mountain,” will speak at the Purdue’s Literary Awards event on April 22. An additional prize to this week’s raffle will be a copy of the book signed by author Annie Proulx.
* Feb. 18. George Bodner, A. Kelly Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, will talk about Daniel Wallace’s “Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician.”
* Feb. 25. Rick Johnson-Sheehan, professor of English, will talk about Barack Obama’s “Dreams from My Father,” selected by popular e-vote by the Student English Association and Purdue students.
Books and Coffee is sponsored by the Purdue Student Union Board and the Department of English. More information is available on the Book and Coffee series at http://www.cla.purdue.edu/English/bookscoffee/
Writer: Amy Patterson Neubert, 765-494-9723, apatterson@purdue.edu
Source: Angelica Duran, an associate professor of English and coordinator of Books and Coffee, (765) 496-3957, duran0@purdue.edu
MALDI MS: A Practical Guide to Instrumentation, Methods and Applications
Franz Hillenkamp and Jasna Peter-Katalinic, Eds.
Wiley © 2007
“The introduction of the matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization technique (MALDI) changed mass spectrometry (MS) into a powerful tool for biomedical analysis that is now widely employed in academic as well as industrial laboratories.
The 2002 Nobel Prize was awarded for the development of methods for identification and structure analyses of biological macromolecules. MALDI is one of the two mass spectrometric methods besides Electrospray which is universally used for this purpose.
This unique book gives an in-depth description of the many different applications of MALDI MS, along with a detailed discussion of the technology itself. It will be a much-needed practical and educational asset for individuals, academic institutions and companies in the field of bioanalytics.”
Welcome to Database of the Week — a feature from the Management & Economics Library (MEL). These database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources.
This Week’s Featured Database: Business Source Premier, from EBSCOhost.
Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/mel, in the pull down Quick Access to Business Databases alpha list right below the Libraries’ search box.
Description/focus: Business Source Premier provides access to articles and reports.
Start with this hint: Business Source Premier opens at the Basic Search, but if you choose the Advanced Search tab, before you even start your search you can select options such as Full Text. The Advanced Search page also lists the indexes that can be browsed such as author names and publication types. You should also take a look at the Visual Search tab. This brings up the results of your search in an appealing interactive display. Visual Search does not offer options such as full text and it only brings up the 250 most relevant hits, but if you don’t need 8000 articles on your subject, it is an easy to use alternative.
Why you should know this database: Because of its broad range of content and ease of use, Business Source Premier is one of our most highly recommended databases. It includes journals, trade magazines, Datamonitor reports, newspapers, and more.
How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: Whether students need to find scholarly articles, market research reports, or company information, Business Source Premier can guide them by offering suggestions to narrow down a broad search.
Cost: Business Source Premier is an Inspire database with enhanced features paid by the Libraries. For more information contact mdugan@purdue.edu.
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Database of the Week comes to you from the Management & Economics Library (MEL). Our intent is to give you a brief introduction to a database that you may not know. If you would like more information about this database, or if you would like a demonstration of it for a class, contact kranlib@purdue.edu. Database of the Week is archived at http://blogs.lib.purdue.edu/news/category/MGMT/.
For more Purdue Libraries news, follow us on Twitter (@PurdueLibraries).
If you would like us to promote your favorite database, send an email to mdugan@purdue.edu.
Welcome to Database of the Week — a feature from the Management & Economics Library (MEL). These database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources.
This Week’s Featured Database: LexisNexis Academic, from LexisNexis, Inc.
Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/mel, in the pull down Quick Access to Business Databases alpha list right below the Libraries’ search box.
Description/focus: LexisNexis Academic provides access to a suite of resources from LexisNexis including News, Accounting, Company Dossier, Country Profiles, Statistical, and Legal.
Start with this hint: As we have pointed out in previous emails about LexisNexis, the interface is unadorned. The opening page lands you at Search > General > Easy Search which is where we recommend you begin searching for your topic. Do use the date filter and select appropriate publications from the checklist. When your results are presented, you can further narrow your search with another term or you can select from the filters on the left side. If you want to tweak your results, don’t use the back arrow on your browser but use Edit Search and Go in the field above the list of results. If you switch from Easy Search to Power Search you have more options for narrowing your search.
Why you should know this database: LexisNexis Academic, though not our most sophisticated interface, contains a broad range of information from general news to legal. The information in Country Profiles, accessed through Search > Business, can give you risk reports, political and economic news.
How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: A search for a recent topic in News can give your students an up-to-the minute international perspective on any subject. For a current example, do a search for Haiti.
Cost: LexisNexis Academic is a subscription service paid by the Libraries annually; for more information contact mdugan@purdue.edu.
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Database of the Week comes to you from the Management & Economics Library (MEL). Our intent is to give you a brief introduction to a database that you may not know. If you would like more information about this database, or if you would like a demonstration of it for a class, contact kranlib@purdue.edu. Database of the Week is archived at http://blogs.lib.purdue.edu/news/category/MGMT/. For more Purdue Libraries news, follow us on Twitter (@PurdueLibraries).
If you would like us to promote your favorite database, send an email to mdugan@purdue.edu.
Starting Tuesday, January 5, 2010, American Presidents: Life Portraits, a presidential portrait exhibit presented by C-SPAN and the White House Historical Association, is on display at the John W. Hicks Undergraduate Library at Purdue University (State and Marsteller Streets). The exhibit will be open to the public through February 21, 2010.
American Presidents: Life Portraits features the only complete collection of American presidential oil portraits by one artist, renowned painter and sculptor Chas Fagan. Accompanying the Fagan portraits are biographical sketches of all 43 presidents, including Indiana’s Benjamin Harrison. In addition to the sketches are photographs contributed by the White House Historical Association that capture each president’s time in the White House, as well as historic front pages of American newspapers announcing presidential election results. The exhibit also features audio of speeches given from every president beginning with Theodore Roosevelt.
Commissioned by C-SPAN in 1999, North Carolina artist Chas Fagan painted the presidential portraits to complement C-SPAN’s Peabody Award-winning television series, American Presidents: Life Portraits. The exhibit has traveled to many presidential homes and libraries, with its most recent display in Washington, DC during the 2009 Presidential Inauguration. This is the American Presidents: Life Portraits first visit to Purdue University.
In Lafayette, C-SPAN programming is carried as a public service by Comcast, a C-SPAN board member company. Comcast’s affiliate fees help support C-SPAN operations, including this exhibit.
ABOUT C-SPAN
C-SPAN was created by America’s cable companies in 1979 as a public service and programs three public affairs television networks; C-SPAN Radio, a Washington, D.C. radio station distributed by XM Satellite Radio; and a video-rich website. Visit www.c-span.org.
ABOUT WHHA
The White House Historical Association, a non-profit organization, was created in 1961 to enhance understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of the White House. The association sponsors lectures, exhibits and other outreach programs. Schools, universities and libraries receive free educational materials about the White House. Traveling exhibits and videos are circulated to the presidential libraries and museums around the country.
ABOUT THE JOHN W. HICKS UNDERGRADUATE LIBRARY
The John W. Hicks Undergraduate Library is one of 12 libraries in the Purdue University Libraries system. Primarily designed as a learning space for students, the Undergraduate Library includes the Undergrounds coffee shop and 24 hour study lounge, the Digital Learning Collaboratory for multimedia project production, and the i-Lab, a classroom specifically designed for library instruction.
C-SPAN news release.
Contact: Tamara L. Robinson, C-SPAN, 202-626-6129
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