Parrish Library Database of the Week: Passport, Produced by Euromonitor International
September 11th, 2015
Welcome to Database of the Week, a feature from the Parrish Library. Each of these weekly snapshots will give you a very brief introduction to the basic features of one of our specialized subscription databases. This week’s database is Passport, which is produced by Euromonitor International.
Link: http://guides.lib.purdue.edu/businessdatabases is the alphabetical list of the databases specially selected for those in a business program of study. Access the databases off-campus with your Purdue login and password.
Focus: Passport provides international market intelligence reports.
Search: Passport simple search box is in the top right corner, so you can sample what they offer with a keyword search. A search for beer, for example, generates the usual statistics on facets such as brand shares and country reports, but also links to other statistics such as employment. If you search in the Industries or Economies tabs, you can drill down to more specific categories or companies. The Help tab has a basic guide.
In addition to our regular subscription modules, Industries and Companies, we have a trial for Industrials (under Economies) for a few weeks. Let us know what you think of it.
Why you should know this database: Passport is one of our most powerful databases, with domestic and international statistics on consumer goods and services, details on companies and industries, and comprehensive economic information on countries.
What about students? Students can easily navigate Passport’s interface to find country consumer data for comparing markets.
Cost: For information about the Libraries’ subscription, contact Mary Dugan.
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Database of the Week comes to you from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics. If you would like more information about this database, or if you would like a demonstration of it for a class, contact parrlib@purdue.edu. Also let us know if you know of a colleague who would benefit from this weekly feature.
Since usage statistics are an important barometer when databases are up for renewal, tell us your favorite database, and we will gladly promote it. Send an email to parrlib@purdue.edu or mdugan@purdue.edu.
Filed under: database, general, MGMT
3D Printing Now Available in the Engineering Library – Open to all Campus
September 9th, 2015
Filed under: ENGR, general
Database of the Week – ABI/INFORM Global, from ProQuest
September 4th, 2015
Welcome back to campus and welcome to Database of the Week. This feature from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics will give you a very brief introduction to one of our specialized subscription databases and its basic features. Have a good semester!
This Week’s Database: ABI/INFORM Global, from ProQuest.
Find it: www.lib.purdue.edu/parrish, then in the left-hand column called Collections, click on List of Business Databases. Access it off-campus with your Purdue login and password.
Description/focus: ABI/INFORM Global is one of the most comprehensive business databases, delivering the full-text content of thousands of scholarly journals, trade journals, newspapers, and non-periodicals such as working papers, dissertations, and business cases.
Start with this hint: The ProQuest interface begins with the Basic Search, treating your search terms as keywords. The results page gives a list of articles and reports, suggests related terms, and shows options to narrow by type of source, date, and other criteria. You can switch to Advanced Search for more focused results. Expand your search to other fields, such as science and technology, by clicking on All databases below the ProQuest logo at the top of the screen.
Click here to see a video of a basic search of ABI/INFORM Global or try an escorted walk-through with Guide on the Side at this link.
Why you should know this database: Because of its broad coverage, this is the go-to database for discovering key business articles. Search results can be saved by creating personal folders (My research) within the database.
How this will help students: With the ease of simple searching, ABI/INFORM Global gives researchers at all levels of proficiency access to business and financial information.
Cost: For information about the Libraries’ subscription, contact Mary Dugan.
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Database of the Week comes to you from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics. If you would like more information about this database, or if you would like a demonstration of it for a class, contact parrlib@purdue.edu. Also let us know if you know of a colleague who would benefit from this weekly feature.
Since usage statistics are an important barometer when databases are up for renewal, tell us your favorite database, and we will gladly promote it. Send an email to parrlib@purdue.edu or mdugan@purdue.edu.
Filed under: database, general, MGMT
2015 Parrish Library Case Competition
August 31st, 2015
2015 Parrish Library Case Competition
HOW DO I SIGN UP?
Registration will be open after September 1.
WHAT IS THE PARRISH CASE COMPETITION?
In order to bring more attention to business information literacy inside and outside of Krannert, the Parrish Library is hosting its second case competition. This case competition will be marketing and strategy focused and includes students from Purdue University, University of Notre Dame, and Indiana University.
First place $500
Second place $300
Third place $100
WHO CAN DO THE PARRISH CASE COMPETITION?
This case competition is open to all undergraduate students regardless of major. The teams should be 4-5 students. At Purdue, at least one student should have taken MGMT 175 or GS 175. For Notre Dame and IU, please check your local requirements. Two of the students need to be freshmen or sophomore level (doesn’t have to be the same as MGMT 175 participant). This case competition is intended to be a “lower division” case competition.
WHEN AND WHERE IS THE PARRISH LIBRARY CASE COMPETITION?
Callouts: Wednesday September 16 – KRAN 202 – 5pm-6pm
Callouts: Wednesday, September 23 – KRAN 202 – 5pm-6pm
Callouts: Tuesday, September 29 – KRAN 202 – 5pm-6pm
Teams Form and Case Presentation: Wednesday, September 20, 6pm (Online)
First Round Executive Summaries Due: October 5th (Submitted online)
Final Presentations: Friday, October 9, 1pm-5pm, Open to Public (Burton Morgan 121)
Check out complete details here:https://www.lib.purdue.edu/parrishcasecompetition
Filed under: general, MGMT
Student Jobs Available at Purdue Libraries
August 14th, 2015
Filed under: general
Previously unknown 16 mm film of Amelia Earhart donated to Purdue University Libraries
July 9th, 2015
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University Libraries’ Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections Research Center recently accepted the donation of an original 16 mm film showing Amelia Earhart and her Lockheed Electra as they were being photographed by Albert Bresnik, Earhart’s official photographer.
Earhart, who was a Purdue career counselor and adviser to the Department of Aeronautics from 1935 to 1937, was recruited by then-President Edward Elliott, who was impressed by her spirit of adventure and her message to women. In April 1936 an Amelia Earhart Fund for Aeronautical Research was created with the Purdue Research Foundation. The fund purchased the $80,000 Lockheed Electra that became known as Earhart’s flying laboratory. With navigator Fred Noonan, Earhart disappeared July 2, 1937, near the tiny Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean while attempting an around-the-world voyage.
The film was donated to Purdue by Douglas Westfall, owner and publisher at The Paragon Agency, which last month released a book, “Amelia Earhart’s Last Photo Shoot,” by Nicole Swinford.
According to Westfall, who acquired the film from John Bresnik Jr., the family believes the film footage was taken by Albert’s brother, John Bresnik. The film is unique in that it captures Earhart posing for publicity photos and interacting with her photographer and others at the Union Air Terminal in Burbank, California (today known as the Bob Hope Airport). The film shows clear and close-up shots of Earhart’s plane before her departure on her world flight attempt.
Purdue University Libraries Archives and Special Collections faculty and staff will take steps to preserve the film and make it accessible to students and researchers interested in scholarship on the many facets of the legacy of Amelia Earhart. The film will join the Amelia Earhart Papers in the Barron Hilton Flight and Space Exploration Archives within the Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections Research Center, Purdue University Libraries.
To learn more about the collection visit http://collections.lib.purdue.edu/flight-and-space/.
Contact: Tracy Grimm, Barron Hilton Archivist for Flight and Space Exploration, Purdue University Libraries, 765-496-2941, grimm3@purdue.edu
Related information:
http://collections.lib.purdue.edu/flight-and-space/
Filed under: collections, general, press_release, RSRCH, scholcomm
Previously unknown 16 mm film of Amelia Earhart donated to Purdue University Libraries
July 9th, 2015
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University Libraries’ Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections Research Center recently accepted the donation of an original 16 mm film showing Amelia Earhart and her Lockheed Electra as they were being photographed by Albert Bresnik, Earhart’s official photographer.
Earhart, who was a Purdue career counselor and adviser to the Department of Aeronautics from 1935 to 1937, was recruited by then-President Edward Elliott, who was impressed by her spirit of adventure and her message to women. In April 1936 an Amelia Earhart Fund for Aeronautical Research was created with the Purdue Research Foundation. The fund purchased the $80,000 Lockheed Electra that became known as Earhart’s flying laboratory. With navigator Fred Noonan, Earhart disappeared July 2, 1937, near the tiny Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean while attempting an around-the-world voyage.
The film was donated to Purdue by Douglas Westfall, owner and publisher at The Paragon Agency, which last month released a book, “Amelia Earhart’s Last Photo Shoot,” by Nicole Swinford.
According to Westfall, who acquired the film from John Bresnik Jr., the family believes the film footage was taken by Albert’s brother, John Bresnik. The film is unique in that it captures Earhart posing for publicity photos and interacting with her photographer and others at the Union Air Terminal in Burbank, California (today known as the Bob Hope Airport). The film shows clear and close-up shots of Earhart’s plane before her departure on her world flight attempt.
Purdue University Libraries Archives and Special Collections faculty and staff will take steps to preserve the film and make it accessible to students and researchers interested in scholarship on the many facets of the legacy of Amelia Earhart. The film will join the Amelia Earhart Papers in the Barron Hilton Flight and Space Exploration Archives within the Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections Research Center, Purdue University Libraries.
To learn more about the collection visit http://collections.lib.purdue.edu/flight-and-space/.
Contact: Tracy Grimm, Barron Hilton Archivist for Flight and Space Exploration, Purdue University Libraries, 765-496-2941, grimm3@purdue.edu
Related information:
http://collections.lib.purdue.edu/flight-and-space/
Filed under: collections, general, press_release, RSRCH, scholcomm
Purdue University Libraries, Harvard collaborate to coordinate symposium
July 8th, 2015
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Harvard Library and Purdue University Libraries collaborated in hosting a two-day data management symposium at Harvard on June 16-17. The focus of the symposium centered on new roles for libraries as part of data management strategies during all parts of the research cycle. Attendees came from across the country.
The Symposium incorporated visionary ideas, new concepts and inspirational speakers. The purpose was to promote data awareness and integration of library services into the research cycle, and to demonstrate that data management is not simply about compliance but also about building relationships and engaging stakeholders at all levels.
Well-managed data can allow researchers to develop new lines of inquiry that would not have been possible previously and to communicate their work in innovative ways; librarians can contribute to this effort.
“The agreement by Sarah Thomas, my counterpart at Harvard, to have Harvard Library collaborate with Purdue University Libraries on this symposium recognizes the high regard in which Purdue University Libraries is held for its leadership role in data management. I was very proud of the presentations and participation of my Purdue colleagues at the symposium,” said James L. (Jim) Mullins, dean of libraries and Esther Ellis Norton Professor at Purdue.
The symposium was planned by a joint committee made up of Harvard and Purdue individuals; from Purdue Libraries it included: Paul Bracke, associate dean for research and assessment; Scott Brandt, professor of library science and data specialist; and, Michael Witt, associate professor of library science and head, Distributed Data Curation Center (D2C2).
Other faculty from Purdue who presented and participated were: Jeffrey T. Bolin, associate vice president for research centers, cores, and research development services and professor of biological sciences, Department of Biological Science; and Sylvie Brouder, professor of agronomy, College of Agriculture.
On June 18, a workshop was held that brought together groups from only Harvard and Purdue to explore in more detail specific challenges facing data management at the two universities. Purdue Libraries faculty and staff who presented at the workshop included: Amy Barton, assistant professor of library science and metadata specialist; Scott Brandt, professor of library science and data specialist; Marianne Stowell Bracke, associate professor of library science and agricultural sciences information specialist; Paul Bracke, associate dean for research and assessment; Nastasha Johnson, assistant professor of library science and physical and mathematical sciences information specialist; Line Pouchard, assistant professor of library science and data specialist and Michael Witt, associate professor of library science and head, Distributed Data Curation Center (D2C2).
Contributors to the workshop from Purdue Libraries included: Carly Dearborn, digital preservation and electronic records archivist; Nicole Kong, assistant professor of library science and GIS specialist; Megan Sapp Nelson, associate professor of library science and data information literacy specialist; and Pete Pascuzzi, assistant professor of library science and molecular biosciences information specialist.
Full details on the symposium can be found at: http://library.harvard.edu/harvard-purdue-data
Contact: Shannon Walker, 765-496-9610, walker81@purdue.edu
Filed under: D2C2, general, Open_Access, press_release, PSET, RSRCH, scholcomm
Libraries IT Customer Service Announcement: Phishing attempt on Purdue Libraries Patrons
June 25th, 2015
Libraries IT Customer Service Announcement:
Several Purdue University Libraries patrons have reported phishing attempts that look like the following email:
If you are contacted by patrons who received this email, let them know no office at Purdue will ever send an email which requires following a link to a login page. If they have followed the link and logged in, they should immediately change their Career Account password and let ITaP know about it. ITaP can be reached by phone at (765) 49-44000 or by email at itap@purdue.edu.
Filed under: general
Harvard Purdue Data Management Symposium June 16-17, 2015
June 11th, 2015
Harvard and Purdue Libraries are hosting a two-day (free) data management symposium at Harvard on June 16 and 17, 2015. The focus will be on new roles for libraries as part of data management strategies during all parts of the research cycle.
This symposium on data management will incorporate visionary ideas, new concepts, and inspirational speakers. The purpose is to promote data awareness and integration of library services into the research cycle, and to demonstrate that data management is not simply about compliance but also about building relationships and engaging stakeholders at all levels. Well-managed data can allow researchers to develop new lines of inquiry that would not have been possible previously and to communicate their work in innovative ways; librarians can contribute to this effort. The symposium will explore broader data management needs across libraries and archives that can lead to developing recommendations and policies as well as creating central architecture to support data management.
Full information can be found at
http://library.harvard.edu/harvard-purdue-data
Filed under: general, press_release
