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August 23rd, 2010
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: EconLit, from the American Economic Association.
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: EconLit is an index of more than 30 years of economics literature from around the world.
Start with this hint: Note that EconLit is an index, not a full text database. This is not a barrier to the full text of hits resulting from a search, however, because of the Find it at Purdue feature available in all of our databases. The EBSCOhost interface for EconLit is simple to understand. Use the option for advanced search so that you can narrow your search results by year or publication type. As an example, enter the term “biotechnology” as a basic search and the database returns more than 4500 hits from journals, books, working papers and dissertations. If you use the Advanced Search and limit to the past 10 years of journal articles , then add “agricultural” as a subject, the result is a manageable list of 430 results. When you have identified a title that is applicable to your topic, click on Find it at Purdue which then generates a search in the Libraries’ eJournal Finder (SFX).
Why you should know this database: Because of its specialized subject coverage, any program that includes aspects of economics can include a list of resources developed with the use of EconLit.
How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: Students will find EconLit easy to navigate and will appreciate the options for refining results by year and source type.
Compared to Google: A search in Advanced Google Scholar for “economics” and “biotechnology” for the years 1999-2010 results in 17,900 hits.
Cost: No cost to Purdue University Libraries. EconLit is an Inspire database provided by the state of Indiana. 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 https://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.
Filed under: collections, database, HSSEB, MGMTAugust 18th, 2010
The Libraries’ updated catalog search interface recently came out of beta and is now the default search option for searching the Libraries catalog. To see the new catalog search, visit http://catalog.lib.purdue.edu.
The updated catalog search interface offers faceted searching, or options for users to narrow their searches by format, author, or even library, among other categories. This brings the catalog search interface more in line with popular site search tools, like those at Amazon.com.
A tutorial on using the new search interface is available at http://www.lib.purdue.edu/mel/Tutorials/Vufind%20beta/newvufind_demo_catalog.swf.
The search interface is based on the open-source software VuFind, which was developed by Villanova University and has been further developed by libraries all over the world.
The previous version of the catalog will be available for those who would prefer to use the former search interface for a limited period of time. To access the former catalog interface, click “Search Classic” in the catalog tab. Feedback and suggestions on the new catalog interface can be submitted by clicking on the orange “Feedback” button.
Filed under: collections, general, servicesAugust 6th, 2010
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: CareerBeam, from CareerBeam.
Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/mel, in the pull down Quick Access to Business Databases alpha list right below the Libraries’ search box. CareerBeam is also available at the CareerWiki in the sections for Career Guides and Research a Company.
Description/focus: CareerBeam offers career guidance at all steps of the process.
Start with this hint: CareerBeam requires registration with an email address and password so that the personalized career tools are stored and accessible at any time. Once registered, the user is able to work through assessments for traits such as values, temperament, interests, and others. CareerBeam then synthesizes the results into a Career Profile Report.
Why you should know this database: There are many career fairs on campus in early fall, and professors often receive requests for career-related advice and assistance. CareerBeam has guides to help students build confidence as they identify goals, prepare for interviews, and develop networks. CareerBeam includes a section to help students identify and prepare references, a role that professors are often called to fill. CareerBeam is one of the few resources students can continue to use when they are alumni.
How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: Because students should know about a company and the industry of which it is a part before an interview, CareerBeam has basic company and industry profiles from Hoover’s. Industry profiles include challenges, opportunities, and forecasts. Company information includes competitors.
Compared to Google: Searching for career guidance, resumes, interviewing, and other terms results in free sites offering help in these areas. CareerBeam is a one-stop shop.
Cost: Paid annually by the Libraries, the Center for Career Opportunities, Graduate Career Services, and the Krannert School of Management.
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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 https://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.
Filed under: collections, database, HSSEB, MGMTJuly 8th, 2010
In her new book, Traveling Blind, Stanford professor Susan Krieger describes coming to terms with losing sight in adulthood. Her memoir is poignant but also inspiring as she describes some of the new sensations she experiences as well as the capabilities she has lost. At the center of her stories is always Teela, the labrador guide dog who becomes her constant companion. Published in the series New Directions in the Human-Animal Bond, edited by Alan Beck, this book is a powerful, first-hand account of the unique relationship that exists between humans and their assistance animals. Hear more about Traveling Blind in an interview broadcast on WBAA Public Radio on July 8, 2010, and archived in the series of Purdue University Press 50th anniversary broadcasts on the WBAA website.
Filed under: UncategorizedJuly 1st, 2010
Award-winning interviewer, Mike Loizzo of WBAA Public Radio, has recently interviewed R. Douglas Hurt, head of the Department of History at Purdue and author of American Agriculture: A Brief History, published in a revised edition by Purdue University Press in 2002. The book provides a broad overview of the development of American agriculture from the prehistoric period through the twentieth century, and is a ready reference for the economic, social, political, scientific, and technological changes that have most affected farming. The broadcast is on Friday July 2 at 7.30 am and 4.30 pm on AM-920 and FM 101.30. The full interview is then archived in the WBAA news archive, as part of the series of interviews that WBAA has been airing in celebration of Purdue University Press’s fiftieth anniversary.
WBAA-AM, AM-920, is Indiana’s longest continuously operating radio station, having received its broadcasting license in 1922. In 1993, WBAA-FM, 101.3 FM, began broadcasting.
Filed under: UncategorizedJune 18th, 2010
The ASC has worked with the Digitization Unit and ITD to created a new image request system for staff and patrons interested in receiving high resolution duplicates of ASC images. Follow the link below, click on Request Images Here, fill out the Digital Image Request form, and you will receive your confirmation and communications by email.
Filed under: DIGIT, SPECJune 17th, 2010
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has awarded Purdue University a $187,000 Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grant. Purdue received funding for its “Understanding Curation through the use of Data Curation Profiles” project, which will create a series of workshops to expand the expertise of academic librarians about data curation issues. Purdue Libraries cited that the needs of researchers and data producers are changing radically because of the disruptive effects of technology on research and its dissemination. The university’s continuing education program will teach an estimated 370 librarians to be more effective data curators.
Purdue was one of 38 universities and library organizations nationwide to receive a Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grant. IMLS awarded a total of $22,623,984 in grants that provide scholarships for students in master’s and doctoral programs in library and information science, support the research of early career faculty in graduate schools of library and information science, and provide continuing education opportunities to enhance the skills of practitioners in libraries and archives.
Filed under: faculty_staff, general, RSRCHJune 16th, 2010
Purdue Libraries are partnering with ITaP to update computer workstations in all libraries across campus. Through the end of August, ITaP will be replacing the existing computer workstations with ITaP computers. This will give patrons access to ITaP-provided software and support within libraries.
During the transition, computer workstations may be unavailable in some libraries. Tentative timelines for the updates are listed below.
6/21/10 – Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Library
6/21/10 – Siegesmund Engineering Library
6/21/10 – Physics Library
6/22/10 – M. G. Mellon Library of Chemistry
6/22/10 – Life Sciences Library
6/22/10 – Mathematical Sciences Library
6/22/10 – Pharmacy, Nursing, and Health Sciences Library
6/23/10 – Humanities, Social Science, and Education Library Collaborative Study Center (CSC)
6/24/10 – Humanities, Social Science, and Education Library
The Management and Economics Library and the Hicks Undergraduate Library’s iLab are scheduled to be updated sometime in August.
Filed under: DPIA, facilities, general, HLS, HSSEB, MGMT, PSETJune 16th, 2010
Mike Loizzo, news director at WBAA, Indiana’s oldest public radio station, has recently been interviewing some of Purdue University presses authors and editors to celebrate the Press’s 50th anniversary. Sidney Homan’s interview, broadcast on June 17, explores the motivations behind the writing of A Fish in the Moonlight, one the the Press’s most awarded books of recent years. Written for children in the cancer ward at a Pennsylvania hospital where Homan was artist in residence, the stories in this volume come from real experiences growing up in Philadelphia in the 1940s and 1950s. Some are comic, others are bittersweet. By combining the stories themselves with descriptions of the children he read them to, Sidney Homan provides a powerful and uplifting piece of work. All WBAA interviews conducted as part of the 50th anniversary celebration are archived on a dedicated website, where they can be listened to again.
Filed under: UncategorizedJune 16th, 2010
Michael Witt, an assistant professor of library science and interdisciplinary research librarian at Purdue University, has been named a Fulbright Scholar.
The Fulbright Scholar Program is the U.S. government’s flagship academic exchange effort. It is administered by the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars for the U.S. Department of State.
The award will support Witt in relocating his family to Alexandria, Egypt, where he will lecture and conduct research at the Bibliotheca Alexandria from January to May 2011. The city once housed the Library of Alexandria, which was founded in the third century B.C., and is widely recognized as the first and greatest library of its kind in ancient times.
The Arab Republic of Egypt began construction of the modern Bibliotheca Alexandria in 1995. The library has capacity to hold 8 million books and houses three museums, four art galleries, a planetarium, conference center and other specialized facilities.
Witt’s lecturing and research will benefit Egyptian librarians who are managing electronic resource collections and help them assess technologies to improve access, such as link resolvers, federated search engines and resource selection tools. His research focuses on new roles for librarians in curating non-traditional digital information such as datasets and applying library science principles to e-science. He also has been invited to speak at Alexandria University and the October (City) University for Modern Sciences and Arts in Cairo.
Witt said his Egyptian students at Purdue inspired him to apply for the award. His family invites international graduate research assistants from his lab to Thanksgiving dinner at their home every year. During Ramadan last year, one of the students returned the invitation to Witt to join his family for Iftar, an evening feast, and it piqued his interest.
Writer: Jim Bush, 765-494-2077, jsbush@purdue.edu
Source: Michael Witt, 765-494-8703, mwitt@purdue.edu
PHOTO -Michael Witt,http://news.uns.purdue.edu/images/2010/witt-m10.jpg
Original posting: http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/faculty/2010/100616WittFulbright.html
Filed under: faculty_staff, general, RSRCH, Uncategorized